| Main Entry: | lexicon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection of word meanings, usage |
Synonyms: |
dictionary, glossary, terminology, thesaurus, vocabulary, word stock, wordbook, wordlist |
| Main Entry: | book |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | published document |
Synonyms: |
album, atlas, bestseller, bible, booklet, brochure, codex, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, folio, handbook, hardcover, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, nonfiction, novel, octavo, offprint, omnibus, opus, opuscule, pamphlet, paperback, periodical, portfolio, preprint, primer, publication, quarto, reader, reprint, roll, scroll, softcover, speller, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, vade mecum, volume, work, writing |
| Main Entry: | context |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | framework, circumstances |
Synonyms: |
ambience, background, conditions, connection, frame of reference, lexicon, relation, situation, substance, text, vocabulary |
| Main Entry: | dictionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | book of word meanings |
Synonyms: |
concordance, cyclopedia, encyclopedia, glossary, language, lexicon, palaver, promptory, reference, terminology, vocabulary |
| Main Entry: | glossary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | word list |
Synonyms: |
dictionary, lexicon, vocabulary, word index |
| Main Entry: | jargon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | specialized language; dialect |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk, buzzwords, cant, cliché, colloquialism, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian, gibberish, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, shoptalk, slang, slanguage, speech, stale language, street talk, tongue, trite language, twaddle, usage, vernacular, vocabulary |
Antonyms: |
standard |
| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system of words for communication |
Synonyms: |
accent, argot, articulation, brogue, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, doublespeak, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, lingua franca, palaver, parlance, patois, phraseology, prose, signal, slang, sound, speech, style, talk, terminology, tongue, utterance, verbalization, vernacular, vocabulary, vocalization, voice, word, wording |
| Notes: | don't use 'language' when you mean 'writing system' - Chinese is a spoken language with no characters; the Chinese writing system uses thousands of characters |
| Main Entry: | list |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | record, tabulation |
Synonyms: |
account, agenda, archive, arrangement, ballot, bill, brief, bulletin, calendar, canon, catalog, catalogue, census, checklist, contents, dictionary, directory, docket, draft, enumeration, file, gazette, index, inventory, invoice, lexicon, lineup, listing, loop, manifest, memorandum, menu, outline, panel, poll, program, prospectus, register, roll, roll call, row, schedule, screed, scroll, series, slate, statistics, syllabus, table, tally, thesaurus, ticket, timetable, vocabulary |
| Main Entry: | thesaurus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dictionary of synonyms and antonyms |
Synonyms: |
glossary, language reference book, lexicon, onomasticon, reference book, sourcebook, storehouse of words, terminology, treasury of words, vocabulary, word list |
| Main Entry: | vocabulary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | language of a person or people |
Synonyms: |
cant, dictionary, glossary, jargon, lexicon, palaver, phraseology, terminology, thesaurus, word-hoard, word-stock, wordbook, words |