Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The sum of words one uses or understands; a vocabulary.
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- noun One's
vocabulary ; the words one uses or understands; one'slexicon .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The other is the fire-new phenomenon: terms minted from the existing word-hoard.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The other is the fire-new phenomenon: terms minted from the existing word-hoard.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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I take some of the imagery and vocabulary from that mythic word-hoard of Celtic stories.
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I take some of the imagery and vocabulary from that mythic word-hoard of Celtic stories.
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I take some of the imagery and vocabulary from that mythic word-hoard of Celtic stories.
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It is, however, becoming ever clearer, and to an increasing number, how supremely important is Icelandic as a word-hoard to the
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His ultimate point is that this is why Plato banned poetry -- Greeks formed on Homer could find answers to every question in their word-hoard, and rational discussion was impossible.
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I know the lexicographers are an entirely different bunch, but I still picture a group of Oxford dons in full academic regalia, sitting around the table with their port and chuckling dusty academic chuckles as they try to top each other's gems excavated from the word-hoard.
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The war-fellows 'leader unlock'd he the word-hoard:
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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He begins: Widsith spake: he unlocked his word-hoard.
wingo commented on the word word-hoard
this one is apparently an old english synonym for "vocabulary". more colorful tho
February 16, 2007
kensy commented on the word word-hoard
used in the phrase "unlocked his word-hoard" to describe speaking.
June 27, 2008