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linguidental |
linguiform |
linguine |
linguini |
linguist |
linguistic
| linguistic atlas
| linguistic communication
| linguistic context
| linguistic geography
| linguistic process
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linguistic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective linguistic has 2 senses
- linguistic(a = adj.pert) lingual - consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity" Derived forms noun linguist2, noun linguistics2
- linguistic(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to the scientific study of language; "linguistic theory" Derived forms noun linguist1, noun linguistics1
Antonym: nonlinguistic
CIDE DICTIONARY
linguistic, a. [Cf. F. linguistique.].
Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
linguistic, adj. of or relating to language or the study of languages.
Derivative
linguistically adv.
THESAURUS
linguistic
answering, articulated, communicating, communicational, communional, conversational, descriptive, enunciated, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, interacting, interactional, interactive, intercommunicational, intercommunicative, intercommunional, interresponsive, interrogative, interrogatory, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lingual, metalinguistic, morphological, morphophonemic, nuncupative, oral, parol, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, pronounced, psycholinguistic, questioning, responsive, said, semantic, sounded, speech, spoken, structural, syntactic, telepathic, transmissional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voicefulROGET THESAURUS
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Language
N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.
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