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| Americanism |
a word, phrase, or usage originating in, characteristic of, or peculiar to American English. [1/3 definitions] |
| archaism |
an archaic usage. [1/2 definitions] |
| barbarous |
violating accepted word usage. [1/3 definitions] |
| common law |
law based on custom or usage and on court decisions and opinions, rather than on statute. (Cf. statute law.) |
| context |
the language surrounding a particular usage of a word, phrase, or sentence, or the situation in which the piece of language is used. [1/2 definitions] |
| convention |
a practice or procedure that is established by usage and widely accepted; custom. [1/4 definitions] |
| conventional |
established by custom or usage; traditional. [1/3 definitions] |
| corpus |
a compilation of written or spoken texts in electronic format analyzed as linguistic data in order to learn about word meaning and usage, word frequency, and language patterns. [1/4 definitions] |
| Creole |
(l.c.) a mixed language developed when two groups having different languages, after an extensive period of time and interaction, combine the vocabulary, grammar, and usage of the two languages into a third dialect in which one of the first is usu. dominant. [1/6 definitions] |
| custom |
in law, such traditional practices of a social group regarded as legally binding because of long usage. [1/8 definitions] |
| dialect |
a variety of a language that is peculiar to a region, social class, or occupation and that differs from the standard language in pronunciation, usage, and vocabulary. [1/2 definitions] |
| Erin |
in literary usage, Ireland. |
| French Academy |
an association of forty scholars and writers devoted to maintaining the purity of the French language and establishing rules of usage. |
| idiomatic |
of an expression or usage of words, peculiar within a particular language itself, esp. having a meaning that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of elements. [1/4 definitions] |
| illegitimate |
not in good usage; inappropriate. [1/6 definitions] |
| misusage |
incorrect or improper usage, as of a word. [1/2 definitions] |
| naturalize |
to bring (something foreign or new) into common usage. [1/4 definitions] |
| neologism |
a new word, phrase, or usage. [1/2 definitions] |
| reputable |
considered proper usage, esp. of words. [1/2 definitions] |
| sempiternal |
in literary usage, lasting forever; perpetual; eternal. |
| sic2 |
thus; so (used parenthetically when citing a quotation in a written text to indicate that an apparently incorrect usage or misprint has been faithfully copied from the original and is not an error on the part of the present writer). |
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