Vocabulary
[və(ʊ)'kæbjʊlərɪ] or [və'kæbjəlɛri]
Definition
(noun.) a language user's knowledge of words.
(noun.) the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts); 'he introduced a wide vocabulary of techniques'.
(noun.) a listing of the words used in some enterprise.
Typist: Remington--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.
(n.) A sum or stock of words employed.
Typed by Geoffrey
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Dictionary, glossary, lexicon, word-book, list of words.
Edited by Jessica
Examples
- You must penetrate the ponderous vocabulary, the professional cant to the insight beneath or you scoff at the mountain ranges of words and phrases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Their very vocabulary was unfamiliar to him, and seemed to belong to fiction and the stage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The great sin of sins, in her eyes,--the sum of all evils,--was expressed by one very common and important word in her vocabulary--shiftlessness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She had pronounced the word as if it had no more significance than any other in her vocabulary. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We cannot expect to meet our problems with a few inherited ideas, uncriticised assumptions, a foggy vocabulary, and a machine philosophy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In controversy we do not try to find our opponent's meaning: we examine his vocabulary. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The capacity for telling things increased with their vocabulary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its voice was a little metallic, it is true, but here was presented an insignificant looking piece of mechanism which was undeniably a talking machine and one with an unlimited vocabulary. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To him our schools are also indebted for the method of teaching foreign languages b y declensions, conjugations, vocabularies, formal rhetoric and annotations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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