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All langue synonyms

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  • language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
  • expression — The process of making known one's thoughts or feelings.
  • accent — Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from.
  • argot — An argot is a special language used by a particular group of people, which other people find difficult to understand.
  • articulation — Articulation is the action of producing a sound or word clearly, in speech or music.
  • cant — a salient angle.
  • communication — Communications are the systems and processes that are used to communicate or broadcast information, especially by means of electricity or radio waves.
  • conversation — If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation.
  • dialect — A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area.
  • diction — Someone's diction is how clearly they speak or sing.
  • dictionary — (as modifier)
  • discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
  • gibberish — meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing.
  • idiom — an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
  • interchange — to put each in the place of the other: to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
  • jargon — a colorless to smoky gem variety of zircon.
  • lexicon — a wordbook or dictionary, especially of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew.
  • palaver — a conference or discussion.
  • parlance — a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
  • patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
  • phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • prose — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
  • signal — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
  • slang — a specialized dictionary covering the words, phrases, and idioms that reflect the least formal speech of a language. These terms are often metaphorical and playful, and are likely to be evanescent as the spoken language changes from one generation to another. Much slang belongs to specific groups, as the jargon of a particular class, profession, or age group. Some is vulgar. Some slang terms have staying power as slang, but others make a transition into common informal speech, and then into the standard language. An online slang dictionary, such as the Dictionary.com Slang Dictionary, provides immediate information about the meaning and history of a queried term and its appropriateness or lack of appropriateness in a range of social and professional circumstances.
  • soundThe, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 miles (140 km) long; 3–30 miles (5–48 km) wide.
  • speech — the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity.
  • style — a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
  • talk — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • tongue — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
  • utterance — the utmost extremity, especially death.
  • verbalization — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
  • vernacular — (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).
  • vocabulary — the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons: His French vocabulary is rather limited. The scientific vocabulary is constantly growing.
  • vocalization — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
  • voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
  • word — Microsoft Word
  • wording — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • brogue — If someone has a brogue, they speak English with a strong accent, especially Irish or Scots.
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
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