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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She was seeing many children under “balanced literacy” lessons slip through the cracks — especially those with limited vocabularies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
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
Past research has shown that efficient color vocabularies are constrained both by how people perceive colors and by how much they want or need to communicate about a given color.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024
They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
