vocabulary
noun
the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons.
vocabularies
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pluralof vocabulary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In totalitarian regimes, censored vocabularies create the illusion of consensus and the impossibility of dissent.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
Scientists tried using sign language to converse with apes and trained parrots to deploy growing English vocabularies.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2024
"As the vocabulary grows, the number of different vocabularies that you could move to is increasingly constrained."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
One of the reasons off-Broadway continues to be so vital is that it requires us to retool our critical vocabularies and to rethink our certainties of how this art form should behave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
“I move we officially ban the word sorry from our vocabularies while we’re here.”
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
