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vocabularies

noun , plural of vocabulary

Synonyms and Antonyms of vocabularies

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

scientific vocabulary

Synonyms of vocabularies

argots, cants, dialects, jargons, jives, languages, lingos (or lingoes), patois, patter, shops, shoptalk, slangs, terminologies

Words Related to vocabularies

colloquials, colloquialisms, idioms, localisms, parlances, pidgins, provincialisms, regionalisms, speeches, vernaculars, vernacularisms

bureaucrateses, computereses, cyberspeaks, educationeses, governmenteses, journaleses, technobabbles

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

children learn enough of the common vocabulary to make themselves understood by around the age of two

Synonyms of vocabularies

languages, lingos (or lingoes), mother tongues, speeches, tongues

Words Related to vocabularies

argots, cants, colloquials, dialects, idiolects, idioms, jargons, parlances, patois, patter, pidgins, slangs, slanguages, vernaculars

colloquialisms, localisms, provincialisms, regionalisms, shibboleths, vernacularisms

coinages, modernisms, neologisms

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