language

• A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols (synset 106293304)
  domain member category:

  • accent, accent mark - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
  • expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
  • language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication - (language) communication by word of mouth
  • alphabetize - provide with an alphabet
  • crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, perspicuous - (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
  • well-turned - (of language) aptly and pleasingly expressed
  • uncorrupted, undefiled - (of language) not having its purity or excellence debased
  • synchronic - concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents
  • diachronic, historical - used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time
  hypernym: communication - something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups
  hyponym:

  • usage - the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written
  • dead language - a language that is no longer learned as a native language
  • words - language that is spoken or written
  • source language - a language that is to be translated into another language
  • object language, target language - the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated
  • sign language, signing - language expressed by visible hand gestures
  • artificial language - a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose
  • metalanguage - a language that can be used to describe languages
  • native language - the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood
  • indigenous language - a language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere
  • superstrate, superstratum - the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language
  • natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
  • interlanguage, koine, lingua franca - a common language used by speakers of different languages
  • linguistic string, string of words, word string - a linear sequence of words as spoken or written
  • barrage, bombardment, onslaught, outpouring - the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)
  • slanguage - language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant
  synonym: linguistic communication
• (language) communication by word of mouth (synset 107123904)
  domain category: language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
  hypernym: auditory communication - communication that relies on hearing
  hyponym:

  • words - the words that are spoken
  • orthoepy, pronunciation - the way a word or a language is customarily spoken
  • conversation - the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
  • discussion, give-and-take, word - an exchange of views on some topic
  • expression, locution, saying - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
  • non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
  • idiolect - the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life
  • monologue - a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation)
  • charm, magic spell, magical spell, spell - a verbal formula believed to have magical force
  • dictation - speech intended for reproduction in writing
  • monologue, soliloquy - speech you make to yourself
  synonym: oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication
• The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number (synset 107066015)
  hypernym: text, textual matter - the words of something written
  hyponym: love lyric - the lyric of a love song
  part meronym: song, vocal - a short musical composition with words
  synonym: lyric, words
• The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication (synset 105816565)
  hypernym: higher cognitive process - cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use
  hyponym: reading - the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
  synonym: linguistic process
• The mental faculty or power of vocal communication (synset 105658665)
  domain member category: verbalise, verbalize - convert into a verb
  hypernym: faculty, mental faculty, module - one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
  part holonym:

  • lexis - all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function
  • lexicon, mental lexicon, vocabulary - a language user's knowledge of words
  synonym: speech
• A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline (synset 106315049)
  hypernym: word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify
  hyponym:

  • markup language - a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document
  • toponomy, toponymy - the nomenclature of regional anatomy
  synonym: nomenclature, terminology

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