vocabularynoun
uk/vəˈkæb.jə.lər.i/us/voʊˈkæb.jə.ler.i/A2 [ C ] all the words known and used by a particular person:
a wide/limited vocabulary
By the age of two a child will have a vocabulary of about two hundred words.
C1 [ C or U ] all the words that exist in a particular language or subject:
Every week our Spanish teacher gives us a list of vocabulary (= words) to learn.
Computing, like any subject, has its own vocabulary.
More examples
- I have to say, I don't have much time for the pseudy vocabulary of wine snobs.
- The English language is rich in vocabulary.
- Use spidergrams to organize your English vocabulary into different subjects.
- The course covers a wide range of vocabulary.
- I try to learn ten new items of vocabulary a day.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: terminology & vocabulary
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- archaism
- buzzword
- cognate
- coinage
- corruption
- defining vocabulary
- denotation
- false friend
- homophone
- loanword
- neologism
- nonsense word/syllable
- so-called
- technobabble
- term
- vocab
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Idiom(s)
not be in sb's vocabulary