单词 | vocabulary |
释义 | vocabulary —vocabularied, adj. /voh kab"yeuh ler'ee/, n. , pl. vocabularies. 1. the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons: His French vocabulary is rather limited. The scientific vocabulary is constantly growing. 2. a list or collection of the words or phrases of a language, technical field, etc., usually arranged in alphabetical order and defined: Study the vocabulary in the fourth chapter. 3. the words of a language. 4. any collection of signs or symbols constituting a means or system of nonverbal communication: vocabulary of a computer. 5. any more or less specific group of forms characteristic of an artist, a style of art, architecture, or the like. [1525-35; < ML vocabularium, n. use of neut. of vocabularius of words, equiv. to L vocabul(um) VOCABLE + -arius -ARY] |
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