Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Language

Nouns
  • language
  • phraseology etc. Style
  • speech etc. Speech
  • tongue, lingo, vernacular
  • mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue
  • household words
  • King's English, Queen's English
  • dialect etc. Neologism. confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie
  • pantomime etc. (signs) Indication
  • onomatopoeia
  • betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation
  • pasigraphy. lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology
  • linguistics, chrestomathy
  • paleology, paleography
  • comparative grammar. literature, letters, polite literature, muses, humanities, republic of letters, dead languages, classics
  • genius of language
  • scholarship etc. (scholar) Scholar.
Verbs
  • express by words etc. Phrase.
Adjectives
  • lingual, linguistic
  • dialectic
  • vernacular, current
  • bilingual
  • diglot, hexaglot, polyglot
  • literary.
Phrases
  • syllables govern the world" [Selden].