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lingo

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of lingo

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

medical missionaries struggling to learn the lingo of the African tribe that they were treating

Synonyms of lingo

language, mother tongue, speech, tongue, vocabulary

Words Related to lingo

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

colloquialism, localism, provincialism, regionalism, shibboleth, vernacularism

coinage, modernism, neologism

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

the shorthand medical lingo that the hospital staffers use with one another

Synonyms of lingo

argot, cant, dialect, jargon, jive, language, patois, patter, shop, shoptalk, slang, terminology, vocabulary

Words Related to lingo

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

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

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