Definition of Vocabulary. Meaning of Vocabulary. Synonyms of Vocabulary

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Definition of Vocabulary

Vocabulary
Vocabulary Vo*cab"u*la*ry, n.; pl. Vocabularies. [LL. vocabularium, vocabularius: cf. F. vocabulaire. See Vocable.] 1. 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. 2. A sum or stock of words employed. His vocabulary seems to have been no larger than was necessary for the transaction of business. --Macaulay.

Meaning of Vocabulary from wikipedia

- A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated...
- Vocabulary development is a process by which people acquire words. Babbling shifts towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words...
- borrowed some grammar and core vocabulary from Old Norse, a North Germanic language. Then, Middle English borrowed vocabulary extensively from French dialects...
- 11 February 2015, kiasu was chosen as OED's Word of the Day. Singlish vocabulary formally takes after British English (in terms of spelling and abbreviations)...
- century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-****anese vocabulary entered the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle ****anese...
- developed in standard Korean, including variations in pronunciation and vocabulary chosen. However, these minor differences can be found in any of the Korean...
- particles, final-obstruent devoicing, and (similar) word order. Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic; it incorporates slightly more Romance loans than German...
- registers of V2 word order, a large percentage of the vocabulary (now at around 15% of modern French vocabulary) including the impersonal singular pronoun on...
- 1501/Tarar_0000000247. Chadwick, John; Baumbach, Lydia (1963). "The Mycenaean Gr**** Vocabulary". Glotta. 41 (3/4): 157–271. JSTOR 40265918. Lewis & Short Monier Williams...
- Controlled vocabularies provide a way to organize knowledge for subsequent retrieval. They are used in subject indexing schemes, subject headings, thesauri...