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  1. noun All the words of a language.
  2. noun The sum of words used by, understood by, or at the command of a particular person or group.
  3. noun A list of words and often phrases, usually arranged alphabetically and defined or translated; a lexicon or glossary.
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  • I began by pronouncing the few English words I knew: when my vocabulary was at fault, and I was about to run short, I invented expressions which, owing to their strange shape, greatly amused my audience. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
  • Pretty California women don't usually command that kind of vocabulary, which is probably why nobody spoke for a long moment. —  FSF,May2004
  • Prior to the financial meltdown this fall, "I think we were in full tide of entrepreneurial capitalism and now there's an introspection, where the vocabulary is all about regulation and the importance of the government to restart the economy," he says. —  WSJ.com: What's News US
  • John, in his gospel and epistles, deals with the deepest realities, and with all things in their eternal aspects, but his vocabulary is the simplest in the New Testament. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
  • She even, and therein lay her final greatness, blinked at Reed's occasional profanity as concerned his accident, whereas the average woman would have wept maudlinly Your vocabulary is a picturesque one, Reed," she told him, upon one occasion. —  The Brentons
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  1. French vocabulaire, from Old French, from Medieval Latin vocābulārium, from neuter of vocābulārius, of words, from Latin vocābulum, name; see vocable.

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  1. = French vocabulaire = Spanish Portuguese vocabulario = Italian vocabolario = German vocabularium, from New Latin vocabularium, neuter, Middle Latin New Latin vocabularius (sc. liber), a list of words, a vocabulary, from Latin vocabulum, an appellation, name, Middle Latin word: see vocable.
 

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/vəˈkæbjuləri/
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