| 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: | vernacular |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | native language |
Synonyms: |
argot, cant, dialect, idiom, jargon, jive talk, language, lingo, lingua franca, native tongue, parlance, patois, patter, phraseology, slang, speech, street talk, tongue |
| Main Entry: | trade language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restructured language |
Synonyms: |
business language, creole, diplomatic language, jargon, language universal, lingua franca, linguistic universal, pidgin |
| Main Entry: | langue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | language |
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 |
| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
Tudesque, allophyllan, analytic, aphoristic, argotic, aureate, axiomatic, belletristic, bilingual, colloquial, conditional, conjugate, copulative, coradicate, current, cursive, derivative, diachronic, dialectic, diglot, effable, elliptical, emphatic, epicene, euphemism, euphuistic, expressed, factitive, feuilletonistic, flowery, formal, fustian, gazooly, glottogonic, grammatical, grandiloquent, heteroclite, hieratic, highfalutin, hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, holocryptic, holophrastic, homoglot, idiomatic, impersonal, imsonic, inaccurate, incorrect, informal, interlingual, irregular, laconic, lexical, lexicologic, lexiphanic, lingual, linguished, linguistic, literal, literary, literose, logofascinated, macaronic, monepic, monoglot, multilingual, neologic, neological, nominal, nonstandard, notorious, ornate, paradigmatic, paronomastic, paronymous, pauciloquent, periphrastic, phatic, phylacteric, pleonastic, polyglot, polysemous, polysynthetic, preterpluperfect, properispomenon, proverbial, regular, rhematic, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, sonorous, standard, substandard, suppletive, synchronic, syntactic, syntagmatic, synthetic, tautegorical, titular, togated, tralatitious, ungrammatical, verbal, vernacular, volitive, vulgar
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| Concept: | Language. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional Means; Language Generally |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
language; phraseology; speech; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's or Queen's English; dialect., confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie; pantomime (signs); onomatopoeia; betacism, mimmitation, myatism, nunnation; pasigraphy., lexicology, philogy, glossology, glottology; linguistics, chrestomathy; paleology, paleography; comparative grammar., literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship (scholar).
-verbs
-adjectives
lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot, hexaglot, polyglot; literary.
-phrases
"syllables govern the world" [Selden].
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