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  1. language that is spoken or written
  2. words making up the dialogue of a play
  3. the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
  4. the words that are spoken
  5. an angry dispute

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  • But to hear the Colonel put it in plain American words--that was terrifying After the Colonel stated the facts, they didn't discuss it much. —  154 - The Screaming Man
  • Credit ... only some credit for your words should be the requirement here, among us. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • I love how the words are a transcript of what's in the characters head to the extent that what's said and what isn't complement each other and how the characters move or look add to the conversation of words, thoughts, and bodies: —  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary
  • Finnish has three more letters than the English alphabet: ä and ö are used in Finnish words, while å is hardly ever used, i.e. in Swedish loan words or names, such the Åland island in the Finnish Archipelago Sea which is perhaps not the best example as it is called Ahvenanmaa by Finnish speakers. —  Command Line Warriors
  • My knowledge of the Oriental tongues is not remarkably extensive, being indeed confined to two words--the Arabic word for barley and the Turkish for opium (madjoon), which I have learned from Anastasius_; and as I had neither a Malay dictionary nor even Adelung's Mithridates_, which might have helped me to a few words, I addressed him in some lines from the Iliad, considering that, of such languages as I possessed, Greek, in point of longitude, came geographically nearest to an Oriental one. —  Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
 

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