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| Main Entry: | vocabulary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | language of a person or people |
| Synonyms: | cant, dictionary, glossary, jargon, lexicon, palaver, phraseology, terminology, thesaurus, words, word-hoard, word-stock, wordbook |
| Main Entry: | argot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
| Synonyms: | cant, dialect, idiom, lingo, parlance, patois, slang, terminology, vernacular, vocabulary |
| 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: | 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: | diction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | style of speech; articulation |
| Synonyms: | delivery, elocution, eloquence, expression, fluency, gift of gab*, inflection, intonation, language, line, lingo, locution, oratory, parlance, phrase, phraseology, pronunciation, rhetoric, usage, verbiage, vocabulary, wording, command of language, enunciation, phrasing, verbalism, wordage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dictionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | book of word meanings |
| Synonyms: | encyclopedia, glossary, language, lexicon, palaver, reference, terminology, vocabulary, concordance, cyclopedia, promptory |
| 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*, 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: | lexicon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection of word meanings, usage |
| Synonyms: | dictionary, glossary, terminology, thesaurus, vocabulary, word stock, wordbook, wordlist |
| 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: | list |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | record, tabulation |
| Synonyms: | account, agenda, archive, arrangement, ballot, bill, brief, bulletin, calendar, canon, catalog, catalogue, census, contents, dictionary, directory, docket, draft, enumeration, file, gazette, index, inventory, invoice, lexicon, loop, manifest, memorandum, menu, outline, panel, poll, program, prospectus, register, roll, roll call, row, schedule, scroll, series, slate, statistics, syllabus, table, tally, thesaurus, ticket, timetable, vocabulary, checklist, lineup, listing, screed |
| Main Entry: | terminology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wording |
| Synonyms: | diction, jargon, language, lingo, locution, nomenclature, phraseology, vocabulary, words, choice of words, onomastics, phrasing, turn of phrase, wordage |
| Main Entry: | thesaurus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dictionary of synonyms and antonyms |
| Synonyms: | glossary, lexicon, reference book, terminology, vocabulary, language reference book, onomasticon, sourcebook, storehouse of words, treasury of words, word list |
| Main Entry: | text |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | subject matter of document |
| Synonyms: | argument, body, consideration, content, contents, context, document, extract, fundamentals, head, idea, issue, line, matter, motive, passage, point, quotation, sentence, stanza, subject, theme, thesis, topic, verse, vocabulary, wording, words, lines, main body, motify, paragraph |
| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jargon |
| Synonyms: | argot, dialect, diction, idiom, language, lingo, patois, patter, phraseology, slang, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Antonyms: | standard |
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