Definitions for vocabulary

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vocabulary vo·cab·u·lar·y

Spelling: [voh-kab-yuh-ler-ee]

IPA: /voʊˈkæb yəˌlɛr i/

Vocabulary is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 377 anagrams from letters in vocabulary (aabcloruvy).

Definitions for vocabulary

noun

1. the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons:
2. a list or collection of the words or phrases of a language, technical field, etc., usually arranged in alphabetical order and defined:
3. the words of a language.
4. any collection of signs or symbols constituting a means or system of nonverbal communication:
5. any more or less specific group of forms characteristic of an artist, a style of art, architecture, or the like.

Origin of vocabulary

1525-35; Medieval Latin vocābulārium, noun use of neuter of vocābulārius of words, equivalent to Latin vocābul(um) vocable + -ārius -ary

Examples for vocabulary

It was curious how the sense of evil had limited each one's vocabulary.

But it also serves to bring us finally to the vocabulary of Esmond.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin.

You have to have discipline in the words you use, in your vocabulary.

Chance is a word which ought to be banished from the Christian vocabulary.

But the shock to her feelings had loosed the good woman's vocabulary.

Without the freedom to act on moral values, there is not even a vocabulary for public virtue.

My Arabic is limited to a vocabulary of my favorite foods, such as “I love chicken and rice.”

Here, the vocabulary of fast food for many young Brazilians is temaki (hand rolls) instead of burgers and fries.

In an uncanny way, that describes the precise definition of the hipster, when the term first appeared in the American vocabulary.