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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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: | lexicon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection of word meanings, usage |
| Synonyms: | dictionary, glossary, terminology, thesaurus, vocabulary, word stock, wordbook, wordlist |
| 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: | reference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | printed matter with information |
| Synonyms: | archives, cyclopedia, dictionary, encyclopedia, evidence, source, thesaurus, writing |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | reference book |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | book of information |
| Synonyms: | almanac, atlas, dictionary, directory, encyclopedia, how-to book, source book, thesaurus, wordbook, work of reference |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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