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Another word for lexicon

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Noun

  1. An alphabetical list of words often defined or translated

      1. A lexicon, vocabulary, or dictionary.
      1. All the words of a language.
      2. The sum of words used by, understood by, or at the command of a particular person or group.
      3. A list of words and often phrases, usually arranged alphabetically and defined or translated; a lexicon or glossary.
      1. A list of often difficult or specialized words with their definitions, often placed at the back of a book.
      1. A reference work containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
      2. A reference work containing an alphabetical list of words in one language with their translations in another language.
      3. A reference work containing an alphabetical list of words in a particular category or subject with specialized information about them:
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    words

  2. Specialized expressions indigenous to a particular field, subject, trade, or subculture

      1. All the words of a language.
      2. The sum of words used by, understood by, or at the command of a particular person or group.
      3. A list of words and often phrases, usually arranged alphabetically and defined or translated; a lexicon or glossary.
      1. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language.
      2. A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region:
      3. The specialized vocabulary of a particular trade, profession, or group:
      1. The vocabulary of technical terms used in a particular field, subject, science, or art; nomenclature.
      2. The study of nomenclature.
      1. A regional dialect, especially one without a literary tradition.
      2. Nonstandard speech.
      3. The special jargon of a group; cant.
      1. The specialized vocabulary of a particular field or social group, especially when viewed as unfamiliar:
      1. Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.
      2. Such a system including its rules for combining its components, such as words.
      3. Such a system as used by a nation, people, or other distinct community; often contrasted with dialect.
      1. The specialized language of a trade, profession, or similar group, especially when viewed as difficult to understand by outsiders:
      2. Nonsensical or incoherent language:
      3. A hybrid language or dialect; a pidgin. Not in technical use.
      1. A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in keep tabs on.
      2. The specific grammatical, syntactic, and structural character of a given language.
      3. Regional speech or dialect.
      1. A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists:
      2. A variety of language that with other varieties constitutes a single language of which no single variety is standard:
      3. The language peculiar to the members of a group, especially in an occupation; jargon:
      1. Angular deviation from a vertical or horizontal plane or surface; an inclination or slope.
      2. A slanted or oblique surface.
      3. A thrust or motion that tilts something.
      1. A specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular group:
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    words

  3. All the words of a language

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    words

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Another word for lexicon

Noun
      1. All the words of a language.
      2. The sum of words used by, understood by, or at the command of a particular person or group.
      3. A list of words and often phrases, usually arranged alphabetically and defined or translated; a lexicon or glossary.
      1. A book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonyms.
      2. A book of selected words or concepts, such as a specialized vocabulary of a particular field, as of medicine or music.
      1. A list of often difficult or specialized words with their definitions, often placed at the back of a book.
    See also:

    vocabulary

    dictionary

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Sentence Examples

  • The only completed lexicon (apart from the Indices of Naudet, 1832, and Weise, 1838) is that of Pareus (2nd ed., 1634).

  • This lexicon is of especial importance by reason of its ample.

  • For no system of marks in a lexicon can tell one how to pronounce a word.

  • In the East, Tanhum ben Joseph of Jerusalem was the author of commentaries (not to be confounded with the Midrash Tanhuma) on many books of the Bible, and of an extensive lexicon (Kitab al-Murshid) to the Mishnah, all in Arabic.

  • Driver and Francis Brown he prepared a revised Hebrew and English Lexicon (1891-1905), and with Driver edited the " International Commentary Series."

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