Standard Lemma 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.
noun
The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The vocabulary used by a writer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cognition, knowledge, noesis
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti Proto-Hellenic *légō Ancient Greek λέγω (légō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Ancient Greek λέξῐς (léxĭs)lbor. English lexis Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “speech, word”).
