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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | parley |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | negotiation |
| Synonyms: | confab, conference, consult, conversation, debate, discussion, huddle, palaver, talk |
| Notes: | parlay means to use one gain to make another; parley is to discuss (or as a noun, conference or discussion) |
| Main Entry: | confab |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversation |
| Synonyms: | chat, chatter, chitchat, confabulation, converse, dialogue, discussion, palaver, speech, talk |
| Main Entry: | confab |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | converse |
| Synonyms: | chaffer, chat, chatter, chitchat, confabulate, discuss, palaver, speak, talk |
| Main Entry: | confabulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | converse |
| Synonyms: | chaffer, chat, chatter, chitchat, confab, discuss, palaver, speak, talk |
| Main Entry: | confabulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversation |
| Synonyms: | chat, chatter, chitchat, confab, converse, dialogue, discussion, palaver, speech, talk |
| Main Entry: | jabberwocky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gibberish |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, babble, balderdash, blah-blah, blather, chatter, claptrap, double talk, drivel, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, jabber, jargon, mumbo jumbo, palaver*, prattle, scat, twaddle, yammer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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
| Main Entry: | rap session |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conference |
| Synonyms: | appointment, argument, chat, colloquium, colloquy, confabulation, conferring, congress, consultation, conversation, convocation, deliberation, discussion, forum, gabfest, groupthink, huddle, interchange, interview, meeting, palaver*, parley, powwow, round robin, round table, seminar, symposium, talk, think-in, ventilation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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