language

language
n
1. speech, tongue, dialect, parlance, idiolect; vernacular, common speech, vulgate, vulgar tongue; mother tongue, native tongue, parent language, linguistic stock; slang, idiom, vulgarism, colloquialism, vernacularism, archaism; patois, pidgin, pidgin English, trade language, lingua franca, Spang-lish; provincialism, regionalism, localism, barbarism; brogue, twang, cockney, isogloss; Americanism, Yan keeism; Englishism, Anglicism, Britishism, Frenchism, Gallicism, Fr. Franglais.Canadianism, Scotticism, Irishism, Hibernicism, Yiddishism; artificial language, auxiliary language, Esperanto, Interlingua, interlan-guage, idioglossia.
2. communication, intercourse, verbal intercourse, discourse, words; speaking, telling, talking; conversation, interlocution, colloquy, converse, interchange.
3. jargon, Inf. lingo, argot, cant; bureaucratese, journalese, newspaperese, businessese, shoptalk, Washingtonese, Pentagonese, officialese, newspeak, educationese, cinemaese, legalese, medicalese; thieves' Latin, peddler's French, St. Giles Greek, pig Latin; jabber, gibberish, gibber, gobbledygook, empty talk; prattle, mumbo jumbo, palaver, patter, rhyming slang.
4. diction, talk, accent, tone, expression, utterance, word of mouth; rhetoric, style, elocution, grandiloquence; manner, manner of speaking, vein, mode, strain, phrasing, wording, terminology, phraseology, vocabulary, locution.

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