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lingual
[ling-gwuhl] 
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oral
[awr-uhl, ohr-]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
| Synonyms: | articulate, ejaculatory, lingual, narrated, phonated, phonetic, phonic, recounted, related, said, sonant, sounded, told, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, voiced, word-of-mouth |
| Notes: | oral applies only to the spoken word but verbal can describe both spoken and written; oral means 'by mouth' or 'by spoken word' and verbal means 'written or spoken word' - so an oral agreement is spoken but a verbal agreement can be spoken or written |
| Antonyms: | printed, written |
| Main Entry: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | by word of mouth |
| Synonyms: | announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, phonic, put into words, said, sonant, told, traditional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, voiced |
| Antonyms: | heard, written |
| Main Entry: | verbal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
| Synonyms: | exact, expressed, lexical, lingual, literal, oral, phrasal, rhetorical, said, stated, told, unwritten, verbatim, word-for-word, word-of-mouth |
| Main Entry: | linguistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | semantic |
| Synonyms: | dialectal, etymological, grammatical, lexemic, lexical, lingual, morphological, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, syntactical |
| Main Entry: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uttered |
| Synonyms: | announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, said, told, unwritten, verbal, voiced |
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