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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | casual dialect |
| Synonyms: | argot, cant, colloquialism, informal speech, jargon, lingo, neologism, patois, patter, pidgin, shoptalk, slanguage street talk, vernacular, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| Antonyms: | standard |
| Main Entry: | buzzword |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular word or phrase |
| Synonyms: | argot, cant, doublespeak, fuzzword, jargon, lingo, mediaspeak, phraseology, policyspeak, slang |
| 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: | dialect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local speech |
| Synonyms: | accent, argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, localism, patois, patter, pronunciation, provincialism, regionalism, slang, terminology, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary |
| 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, 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: | 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: | buzz word, coinage, neology, new phrase, slang, synthetic word, vogue word |
| Notes: | a nonce word is one that has been coined or borrowed for a particular occasion and is unlikely to become standard in the language; a neologism is a 'new word' in the language |
| Antonyms: | time-worn |
| 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, verbalization, vocalization, words |
| Antonyms: | silence |
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