Definition of Vocabulary

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Vocabulary

A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.

A sum or stock of words employed.

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Vocabulary Quotations

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Booker T. Washington

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
David Ogilvy

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
Annie Leibovitz

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
Tommy Lasorda

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
Ani DiFranco

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Christopher Reeve

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
Marilyn Hacker

Vocabulary Translations

vocabulary in Afrikaans is woordeboek
vocabulary in Danish is ordbog
vocabulary in Dutch is vocabulaire, woordenschat
vocabulary in French is dictionnaire
vocabulary in German is Sprachschatz, Vokabel, Wortschatz
vocabulary in Italian is dizionario
vocabulary in Norwegian is ordbok, vokabular
vocabulary in Spanish is diccionario

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