Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
A game that is based on players’ knowledge of a language or languages, such as fictionary, hangman. etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A method of manipulating words so that the layman would find it hard to understand, such as pig Latin, gibberish, etc.
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History
Calque of German Sprachspiel, coined by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
