English > linguistic communication: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols. |
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| Synonym | language |
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| Category of | accent, accent mark | A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation |
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| alphabetize | Provide with an alphabet |
| diachronic, historical | Used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time |
| 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 |
| limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous | (of language) transparently clear |
| speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication | (language) communication by word of mouth |
| synchronic | concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents |
| uncorrupted, undefiled | (of language) not having its purity or excellence debased |
| well-turned | (of language) aptly and pleasingly expressed |
| Narrower | artificial language | A language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose |
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| barrage, bombardment, outpouring, onslaught | The rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) |
| dead language | A language that is no longer learned as a native language |
| indigenous language | A language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere |
| lingua franca, interlanguage, koine | A common language used by speakers of different languages |
| metalanguage | A language that can be used to describe languages |
| native language | The language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood |
| natural language, tongue | A human written or spoken language used by a community |
| 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 |
| slanguage | language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant |
| source language | A language that is to be translated into another language |
| string of words, word string, linguistic string | A linear sequence of words as spoken or written |
| superstrate, superstratum | The language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language |
| usage | The customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written |
| words | language that is spoken or written |
| Broader | communication | Something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups |
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| Spanish | comunicación lingüística, idioma, lenguaje, lengua |
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| Catalan | comunicació lingüística, idioma, llengua, llenguatge |
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