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(noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" |
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Related Words: anagram, anaphor, antonym, back-formation, blend, charade, closed-class word, cognate, cognate word, coinage, content word, contraction, deictic, deictic word, derivative, diminutive, dissyllable, disyllable, equivalent word, form, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word, four-letter word, function word, hapax legomenon, head, head word, headword, heteronym, holonym, homonym, hybrid, hypernym, hyponym, key word, language, language unit, linguistic unit, loan, loanblend, loanword, manner name, meronym, metonym, monosyllabic word, monosyllable, neologism, neology, nomenclature, nonce word, open-class word, opposite, opposite word, palindrome, part name, partitive, polysyllabic word, polysyllable, portmanteau, portmanteau word, quantifier, spoken word, subordinate, subordinate word, substantive, superordinate, superordinate word, synonym, term, terminology, trisyllable, troponym, vocable, whole name, word form, written word |
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(noun) a brief statement; "he didn't say a word about it" |
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Related Words: statement |
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(noun) a verbal command for action; "when I give the word, charge!" |
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Related Words: order |
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(noun) a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; "large computers use words up to 64 bits long" |
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Related Words: computer memory unit |
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(verb) put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" |
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Synonyms: articulate, formulate, phrase |
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Related Words: ask, cast, couch, dogmatize, evince, express, formulaize, formularize, frame, lexicalize, pose, put, redact, show |
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(noun) a promise; "he gave his word" |
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Synonyms: parole, word of honor |
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Related Words: promise |
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(noun) the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) |
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Synonyms: Logos, Son |
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Related Words: Christ, Good Shepherd, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, Messiah, Redeemer, Savior, Saviour, hypostasis |
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(noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password" |
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Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, watchword |
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Related Words: arcanum, secret |
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(noun) an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" |
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Synonyms: discussion, give-and-take |
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Related Words: argument, conference, debate, deliberation, group discussion, language, negotiation, oral communication, panel discussion, postmortem, speech, spoken language, talks |
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(noun) new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome" |
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Synonyms: intelligence, news, tidings |
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Related Words: good word, info, information, update |
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(noun) the sacred writings of the Christian religion; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen" |
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Synonyms: Bible, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, bible |
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Related Words: American Revised Version, American Standard Version, Authorized Version, Douay Bible, Douay Version, Douay-Rheims Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, King James Version, New English Bible, Revised Standard Version, Revised Version, Rheims-Douay Bible, Rheims-Douay Version, Vulgate, family Bible, religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing |
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