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noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of language

1 the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication

  • Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and other countries where English is the dominant language
Synonyms of language

lingo, mother tongue, speech, tongue, vocabulary
Words Related to language

acrolect

argot, cant, colloquial, dialect, idiolect, idiom, jargon, parlance, patois, patter, pidgin, slang, slanguage, vernacular

colloquialism, localism, provincialism, regionalism, shibboleth, vernacularism

terminology

coinage, modernism, neologism

2 the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field

  • "love" means "nothing" in the language of tennis
Synonyms of language

argot, cant, dialect, jargon, jive, lingo, patois, patter, shop, shoptalk, slang, terminology, vocabulary
Words Related to language

colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularism

slanguage

bureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabble

3 the way in which something is put into words

  • we're finding the language of the legal documents to be tough going
Synonyms of language

diction, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage, wording
Words Related to language

expression, formulation, locution

enunciation, phrase, speech, style, utterance, voice

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