Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to language or linguistics.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to language, or to the study of languages: as, linguistic knowledge.
- n. Same as linguistics.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to language.
- adj. Of or relating to linguistics.
- adj. computing Relating to a computer language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. consisting of or related to language
- adj. of or relating to the scientific study of language
Examples
“If parents shape the linguistic environment of their offspring, and if we all shape the linguistic environments of our conspecifics (merely by talking to them!) then the possibility of a ˜linguistic ratchet effect™ is clearly open.”
“What are the most inclusive linguistic groupings, the linguistic stocks, and what is the distribution of each (e.g., the Hamitic languages of northern Africa, the Bantu languages of the south; the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia)?”
“It is the manifest form that is never twice the same, for this form, which we call linguistic morphology, is nothing more nor less than a collective art of thought, an art denuded of the irrelevancies of individual sentiment.”
“As for linguists, I only mean that we, as common people, share certain linguistic conventions.”
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“During the last weekend, some citizens used the opportunity to ask where they can report violation of the Constitution and the Law on Macedonian language, which stipulate that state bodies must adhere to certain linguistic standards, alluding on the use of Latin instead of Cyrillic alphabet on the profile and the lack of proofreading.”
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“What she lacks in linguistic capability, she more than amply makes up in character and values.”
“Ong then summarizes additional research done in linguistic and anthropology fields relating to oral traditions in modern Europe, Africa, and elsewhere.”
“Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time) was really impressive in linguistic department ...”
“The Daily Mail has started a campaign to maintain linguistic purity, defending crisps against potato chips, flat against apartment, and preferring the James Bond elegance of boot and bonnet to the Detroit pragmatism of trunk and hood.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘linguistic’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
surface, administration, project, motion, machine, medical, vision, solid, shape, scheme, income, proceed and 205 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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AFCO - fundamental rights
as enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
enclose, resource, meaningful, margin, embedded, publisher, mentor, clip, spelling, appendix, gloss, refer and 188 more...
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Listography
An entirely spontaneous compilation of nifty words from the English language. I might throw a bit of French in there, too.
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zzyyxx's Words
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artoparts's Words
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my dictionary
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Words That Populate My Mind
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