See Also: Vocabulary(medicine)
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vocabulary(dictionary)
Vocabulary(law)
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vocabulary (iou)



vocabulary noun & adjective. M16.
[medieval Latin vocabularius, -um from Latin vocabulum VOCABLE noun: see -ARY1.]
A. noun.
A usu. alphabetical list of words with definitions or translations, as in a grammar or reader of a foreign language; a glossary. M16.
The range of language of a particular author, group, discipline, book, etc.; the sum of words known or habitually used by an individual. M18.
H. Read Realism is one of the vaguest terms in the vocabulary of criticism. A. Price The marvellous Old Testament vocabulary which had come naturally to seventeenth-century speakers. S. Townsend 'Overview' is just one of the thousands of words in my vocabulary.
The sum or aggregate of words composing a language. L18.
E. A. Freeman The largest infusion that the vocabulary of one European tongue ever received from another.
A set of artistic or stylistic forms, techniques, movements, etc.; the range of such forms etc. available to a particular person etc. E20.
New Yorker Female fashion models, to demonstrate the vocabulary of the mannequin: poise, insouciance, charm..hauteur.
b. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or composed of words. rare. E17.
vocabu'larian noun (rare) a person who gives much or undue attention to words L19.
vocabularize verb trans. (rare) provide with a vocabulary M19.
vocabuler noun (rare) a vocabulary M16-E18.
vocabulist noun (a) a vocabulary; (b) a compiler of a vocabulary: M16.