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71vocabulary — n 1. lexicon, word stock, word inventory; language, dialect, idiom, Inf. lingo, Linguistics. idiolect; patois, jargon, cant, argot, slang, vernacular. 2. dictionary, wordbook, Ger. Worterbuch. glossary, thesaurus, synonym dictionary, Fr.… …
72lexicon — [n] collection of word meanings, usage dictionary, glossary, terminology, thesaurus, vocabulary, wordbook, wordlist, word stock; concepts 276,280 …
73vocabulary — [n] language of a person or people cant, dictionary, glossary, jargon, lexicon, palaver, phraseology, terminology, thesaurus, wordbook, word hoard*, words, word stock*; concepts 276,280 …
74grind — [OE] Grind is part of the ancient Indo European word stock. Relatives such as Latin frendere ‘crush’ and Lithuanian grendu ‘rub’ point back to an Indo European *ghrendh . This perhaps denoted ‘crushing’ rather than what we would today call… …
75Substratum — In contact linguistics, a substratum (lat. sub : under + stratum : layer → lower layer ) is a language that influences another one while that second, intrusive, language supplants it. Similarly, a superstratum is an intrusive language that exerts …
76Lingua sistemfrater — Infobox Language name=Lingua sistemfrater creator=Pham Xuan Thai date=1957 setting=International auxiliary language speakers= ndash; fam2=International auxiliary language posteriori=A posteriori language with a predominantly Romance word stock… …
77pidgin — /pij euhn/, n. 1. an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and… …
78Vietnamese literature — Introduction body of literature produced by Vietnamese speaking people, primarily in Vietnam. Like the river basins that have nourished Vietnam s agricultural civilization for thousands of years, Vietnamese literature has been fed by… …
79Atlantis: The Lost Empire — Atlantis: The Lost Empire …
80Beowulf — (eighth–10th century) The best known and most admired text in OLD ENGLISH literature, Beowulf is an epic poem in 3,182 lines of ALLITERATIVE VERSE recreating the heroic age of Germanic culture, an age in which the lord “ring giver” or “gold… …
