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slang - 11 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | slang |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | casual dialect |
| Synonyms: | argot, cant, colloquialism, jargon, lingo, neologism, patois, patter, vernacular, vulgarity, informal speech, pidgin, shoptalk, slanguage street talk*, vulgarism |
| Antonyms: | standard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | argot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
| Synonyms: | cant, dialect, idiom, lingo, parlance, patois, slang, terminology, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Main Entry: | buzzword |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular word or phrase |
| Synonyms: | argot, cant, jargon, lingo, phraseology, slang, doublespeak, fuzzword, mediaspeak, policyspeak |
| Main Entry: | dialect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local speech |
| Synonyms: | accent, argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, patois, patter, pronunciation, slang, terminology, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary, localism, provincialism, regionalism |
| Notes: | a dialect is geographical or social variety of speech, whereas dialectic is a form of reasoning or argumentation that focuses on resolving contradictions |
| Main Entry: | jargon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | specialized language; dialect |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, argot, balderdash*, banality, bombast, bunk*, cant, cliché, colloquialism, drivel, fustian, gibberish, idiom, lexicon, lingo*, mumbo jumbo*, neologism, nonsense, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, slang, speech, tongue, twaddle*, usage, vernacular, vocabulary, buzzwords, commonplace term, doublespeak, hackneyed term, insipidity, newspeak, overused term, shoptalk, slanguage, stale language, street talk, trite language |
| Antonyms: | standard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system of words for communication |
| Synonyms: | accent, argot, articulation, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, palaver, parlance, patois, phraseology, prose, signal, slang, sound, speech, style, talk, terminology, tongue, utterance, vernacular, vocabulary, voice, word, wording, brogue, doublespeak, lingua franca, verbalization, vocalization |
| Main Entry: | lingo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dialect spoken by a group |
| Synonyms: | argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, patois, patter, slang, speech, talk, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Antonyms: | standard |
| Main Entry: | neologism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | new word |
| Synonyms: | coinage, slang, buzz word, neology, new phrase, synthetic word, vogue word |
| Antonyms: | time-worn |
| Main Entry: | vernacular |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | native language |
| Synonyms: | argot, cant, dialect, idiom, jargon, language, lingo*, parlance, patois, patter, phraseology, slang, speech, tongue, jive talk, lingua franca, native tongue, street talk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
| Synonyms: | argot, dialect, diction, idiom, language, lingo, patois, patter, phraseology, slang, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Antonyms: | standard |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communication with language |
| Synonyms: | argot, chatter, dialect, discourse, jargon, lingo, locution, parlance, patois, slang, speaking, speech, utterance, words, verbalization, vocalization |
| Antonyms: | silence |
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