Synonyms of lingo

lingo

noun

1

as in vocabulary

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 & Similar Words

• vocabulary
• language
• dialect
• tongue
• idiom
• terminology
• slang
• jargon
• parlance
• mother tongue
• speech
• argot
• vernacular
• colloquial
• patois
• colloquialism
• pidgin
• slanguage
• regionalism
• idiolect
• neologism
• patter
• localism
• coinage
• modernism
• vernacularism
• shibboleth
• cant
• acrolect
• provincialism

2

as in terminology

the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• terminology
• slang
• dialect
• vocabulary
• language
• jargon
• argot
• idiom
• patois
• jive
• parlance
• shoptalk
• colloquial
• vernacular
• colloquialism
• patter
• pidgin
• cant
• shop
• slanguage
• regionalism
• speech
• localism
• journalese
• computerese
• vernacularism
• bureaucratese
• provincialism
• technobabble
• educationese
• governmentese
• cyberspeak