Meanings
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1. word
Noun
Suffix
2. language
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3. speech
Alt. forms
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language
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Used in vocabulary (622 in total)
word; vocabulary
English (language)
Japanese (language)
Japanese (language)
honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language
(inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence
term; terminology; wording; choice of words; phraseology
French (language)
tone; manner of speaking
tone (of voice); parlance; style; intonation; accent
boasting; big talk; bombast; Australian English
German (language)
Chinese (language)
foreign language
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
study of foreign languages; linguistics
Russian (language)
human speech
Latin (language)
origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology
words; phrases
the Analects of Confucius (one of the Four Books)
ancient Japanese (as spoken in Japan until the Middle Ages)
Italian (language)
common language; lingua franca; standard language (language variety understood throughout a country)
standard language (used in government, education, etc.); standard Japanese
sense of language; feeling of a word; impression a word makes; nuance
polite language (e.g. masu, desu)
official language
Spanish (language)
motto; slogan; catchword
language of one's country; mother tongue; native language
dead language; extinct language; obsolete word; word that has become passé
faulty statement; misleading statement; misunderstanding caused by a misleading statement
monologue; soliloquy; German (language)
Korean (language)
what language
Greek (language)
colloquialism; colloquial language; slang
origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology
analects; sayings
Greek (language)
indecent language; dirty talk
Hebrew (language)
modern language; contemporary language; living language; modern Japanese; Japanese as spoken since the Meiji period or alternatively, since the end of World War II
machine language; machine code
Arabic (language)
abbreviation; acronym
technical term; terminology; nomenclature
spoken language; colloquial speech; (modern) spoken Japanese; written style based on (modern) spoken Japanese
buzzword; vogue word; popular phrase
Portuguese (language)
language learning ability; foreign language skills; linguistic ability
Japanese word of Chinese origin; Sino-Japanese word; (ancient) Chinese language
irony; rhetorical question
translational equivalent; equivalent word in translation
diction; grammar; syntax; usage; wording
new word; neologism; word of recent origin; recent word; modern term
original word; original language
Tibetan (language)
seasonal word (in haiku)
Cantonese (language)
Dutch (language)
German (language)
loanword; foreign-origin word
Beijing dialect (of Mandarin); Pekingese
emphasis (e.g. placed on a word); stress; tone (of voice)
demonstrative
how many words
casual language
meaning of a word
counter for languages
Korean (language)
imperial rescript
written language; literary language; classical (or formal) written style based on Heian-period Japanese
counter for languages
bragging; exaggeration
Chinese (language)
everyday language; common parlance; vernacular
indigenous language; local language; vernacular; native tongue
Zen terminology; Zen words
phenomime; mimetic word; word that mimics an action, condition, or manner that does not make a sound (e.g. "damp", "calmly")
Czech (language)
headword (in a dictionary); entry word
onomatopoeic word
Ainu (language)
meaning of a word
Buddhist sermon
French (language)
counter for languages
root (origin) of a word
speech; utterance; starting to speak; word used to start a sentence
Japanese language; native Japanese words (as opposed to Chinese-derived words and other foreign loanwords)
Thai (language)
harsh language
Swahili (language); Kiswahili
counter for languages
Hindi (language)
Vietnamese (language)
(specialist) terminology
sociolect spoken in the Tokyo area by gyaru
honorific language
quasi-synonym (word that has a similar meaning to another, but is not interchangeable)
meaning of a word
sound of a word; sounds of speech; phoneme
baby talk (e.g. "choo-choo" for train); words and speech patterns used by infants
Chinese (language)
katakana word; word written in katakana
foreign language
discriminatory term; discriminatory language
Finnish (language)
Taiwanese (language); Taiwanese Hokkien
Pali (language)
quasi-synonym (word that has a similar meaning to another, but is not interchangeable)
forgetting the words; inability to pronounce a word correctly
English (language); British English
one's native language; one's mother tongue
kanji compound formed of opposing elements; antonym; conversation (face-to-face)
kanji compound formed of opposing elements; antonym; conversation (face-to-face)
negative word
Gaelic (language)
classical or dead languages
word form
Indonesian (language); Bahasa Indonesia
degrading language (language used to lower the position of the listener)
Mongolian (language)
Hawaiian (language)
Nepali (language); Nepalese
critical remark; comment; grade (at school; e.g. A, B, C)
linguist; language expert
Polish (language)
talking in whispers; confidential words
hackneyed expression
baseless rumor; baseless rumour; gossip; false report
number of words
Tagalog (language)
Klingon (fictitious language)
another language; different languages
Turkish (language)
word used mainly in writing; literary language
Persian (language); Farsi
associated word
poetic diction
Persian (language); Farsi
Swedish (language)
humble language (e.g. itadaku)
same word
a great many words; huge number of words
Irish (language); Erse
Frisian (language)
Malay (language)
Basque (language)
language of the natives; local language; native tongue; dialect; patois
first part of a word
Shanghainese; Shanghai dialect (of Wu Chinese)
compound word; compound term
Celtic (language)
Hungarian (language)
Danish (language)
international language; world language; global lingua franca; constructed international auxiliary language (e.g. Esperanto)
comprehension (of a word)
international language; world language; global lingua franca; constructed international auxiliary language (e.g. Esperanto)
Egyptian (language)
Samoan (language)
(various) languages; language group; language family
Mongolian (language)
ancient Greek (language)
both languages; both words
Norwegian (language)
well-shaped verse
Western language; Japanese word of Western origin
syllable repetition (indicating plurals)
stem; root of a word
Edo dialect
elegant words; refined diction; poetic expression; classical poetic language (esp. of the Heian period)
modern Japanese (as spoken in Japan after the Middle Ages); Meiji and Taishō period modern Japanese
language family; family of languages
Khmer (language); Cambodian
Quechua (language); Quechuan; Quichua; Quecha
term used in translation; translation equivalent; word borrowed and translated from another language
word linkage
Okinawan (language)
the opening greeting on letters
Romanian (language); Rumanian; Roumanian
Akkadian (language)
Bulgarian (language); Bulgar
group of languages (i.e. the Romance languages, considered as a subset of the Italic languages); group of words
Russian (language)
Latin (language)
ancient Greek (language)
example of a word or phrase
common saying; slang; argot
practical language; language used for day-to-day activity (in contrast to official languages); facility language
with a gentle face and a nice word
to put stress on a word
language of the enemy (esp. English in Japan during WWII)
baby talk; baby language
Tamil (language)
Sinhalese (language); Sinhala
machine language
Welsh (language)
Sumerian (language)
Italian (language)
Western language
different word; another word
quiet conversation; gossiping; idle talk
American English
derivative (word)
related term; associated words
compound word; phrase; collocation; copula
reserved word; keyword
hybrid language; pidgin; hybrid word; portmanteau word
Burmese (language)
Filipino (standardized Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines)
Germanic language
Syriac (language); Syriac Aramaic
Ukrainian (language)
verbiage; wordiness; tautology; blabber; chatter; unnecessary talk
protolanguage; parent language
Tokyo dialect (esp. historical)
substitute; placeholder
everyday language; The Tale of the Heike
basic vocabulary item
Romance languages
langue d'oc; Occitan
Slovakian (language); Slovak
Norse; Nordic languages (Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish)
Berber (language)
Chinese (language)
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
German (language)
middle of a word; within a word
Japanese (language)
language used by students; students' slang
young people's language
cognate language
Ancient Egyptian (language)
Buddhist terminology; word related to Buddhism
Uighur (language); Uigur; Uygur
Javanese (language)
Iranian (any member language of the Iranian language branch, esp. Farsi)
Siamese (language); Thai
Marathi (language); Mahratti
Burmese (language)
Zulu (language)
Croat (language); Croatian
Chinese language (esp. as a college class)
Italian language (esp. as a school subject)
Altaic language
complement
pejorative term; derogatory word; invective
conversation
words; speech; expression
silence
counter for languages
secret language; code word; argot
portmanteau word
parts of speech
Edo-period Kansai dialect
unknown language; unknown word
acronym; initialism
agglutinative language
military term
Afrikaans (language)
Amharic (language)
adult language; office jargon
Urdu (language)
Hangul language (improper neologism for the Korean language)
Lithuanian (language)
Coptic (language)
Assyrian (language)
Lao (language); Laotian
Breton (language)
Cebuano (language); Cebuan; Bisaya
Filipino (standardized Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines)
Catalan (language)
Arabic (language)
Annamese (language); Vietnamese
hard words
foul language; abusive language
Manchu (language)
language used in red-light districts during the Edo period
rare word; unusual word; strange word
just a few words
Latin (language)
Latin (language)
word root (the smallest portion of a larger word that holds meaning)
counter for languages
branch of languages (i.e. Italic languages as a subset of Indo-European languages)
quiet conversation; gossiping; idle talk
portmanteau word
heroic words; big talk; boasting; bragging; grandiloquence; rodomontade
independent word; free-standing Japanese language elements (not auxiliaries or particles)
eye-to-eye communication
ancient language; ancient word; Old Japanese; Japanese as spoken from the end of the 6th century to the end of the Nara period
Late Middle Japanese; medieval Japanese; mediaeval Japanese
spoken language (as opposed to literary)
an independent word
to conclude one's speech
Hakka (language)
dependent word; auxiliaries and particles in Japanese
conjugated word
borrowed word; loanword; loan word
usage; rules of grammar
Flemish (language)
pidgin language; Pijin (language)
Albanian (language)
Ethiopic (language, languages)
Rhaeto-Romance (language)
Romansch (language)
Belarusian (language); Belorussian; Byelorussian; Belarussian
Lepcha (language)
Estonian (language)
French language (esp. as a college class)
Georgian (language)
Bengali (language)
Kannada (language); Kanarese
Serbian (language)
Kongo (language); Kikongo; Congolese
Ilokano (language); Ilocano
taboo word; forbidden word
Brazilian Portuguese; form of Portuguese spoken in Brazil
Maori language; te reo
Tajiki (language)
difficult word
four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)
four-letter word (vulgar English term, e.g. fuck)
whispering; murmuring; talking in a low voice
end of a word; suffix
Greek (language)
Japanese word constructed of elements from foreign languages
Spanish (language)
Tangut (language)
lie; falsehood
etymological dictionary; glossary; thesaurus; history of words
sweet whispers of love; sweet nothings; lovers' whispers
words of greeting
Dutch (language)
Japanese spoken (or written) with an excessive amount of English loanwords
Min Chinese (language); Min
Min Chinese (language); Min
Japanese language; native Japanese words (as opposed to Chinese-derived words and other foreign loanwords)
Thai (language)
Hindi (language)
katakana word; word written in katakana
swear word; dirty word; coprolalia
Welsh (language)
dialect; language of the common people; colloquial language; slang
Portuguese (language)
Portuguese (language)
Urdu (language)
Annamese (language); Vietnamese
Hakka (language)
Kannada (language); Kanarese
Portuguese language
etymological dictionary; glossary; thesaurus; history of words
artificial language
artificial language
old people's talk; sociolect of the elderly
partitive term
spacing between words
newly introduced word (e.g. in a textbook); new word (to learn); new vocabulary
hand signals; flag signals
women's language
Jurchen language
speech used by the speaker to convey the social stature between the speaker and listener; language conveying that the speaker is of greater social status than the listener
medial (in phonics)
hypernym; broader term
collective term
superstratum; superstrate
vernacularism; colloquialism
Early Middle Japanese
twin talk; twin speech; cryptophasia; idioglossia
private-sphere language; language used in every day life; dialect
Manchukuo dialect; Greater East Asian dialect
Japanese-Manchu language
gender neutral word
incorporating language; polysynthetic language
narrower term
national language; state language
male language; masculine language
word-length; word size
mixed language; hybrid language; pidgin; word formed via contamination
local language; local dialect
early modern Japanese; Japanese as spoken during the Edo period
isolating language
adjunct word
function word
rhyming word; rhyme
part of speech
elegant speech (esp. the use of the prefixes "o-" and "go-"); refined language; polite language
psychomime; ideophone depicting mental state or sensation
homonym that has a native Japanese reading
words used to describe tempo, dynamics, etc. in music; musical terminology
similar-sounding words
logogram; logograph
constituent negation; word negation
preface; editors note; postscript
half-word
courteous language (i.e. humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener or a third party)
living language; conjugated word
machine word; computer word
machine word; computer word
Chinese (language); Qiang (language)
Korean (language)
Kashmiri (language)
Hopi (language)
speech mixing words from two languages
speech mixing words from two languages
Hindustani (language)
Hittite (language)
Luwian; Luvian (language)
creole (pidgin that has become a mother tongue)
Aboriginal languages (of Australia)
Armenian (language)
Gothic (language)
Kachin (language)
Icelandic (language)
local language; local dialect
Tungusic language (esp. Evenki)
Malayalam (language)
Romany (language)
Azerbaijani (language)
Ge'ez (language)
Ge'ez (language)
Illyrian (language)
Udmurt (language)
Etruscan (language)
langue d'oil
Punjabi (language); Panjabi
Punjabi (language); Panjabi
Maltese (language)
Zhuang (language)
Faroese (language)
Slovenian (language); Slovene
Latvian (language)
Shughni (language spoken in Pamir mountains in Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
Elamite (language)
Ladin (Rhaeto-Romanic dialect)
Navajo (language)
Tahitian (language)
Tahitian (language)
secret language used in the postwar Showa period where certain words are read backwards
secret language used in the postwar Showa period where certain words are read backwards
Internet slang
Ottoman Turkish (language); Osmanli; Ottoman
Khmer (language); Cambodian
Malagasy (language)
Malagasy (language)
Tswana (language); Setswana
Telugu (language); Telegu
Gujarati (language); Gujerati
Oriya (language)
Sundanese (language)
Kurdish (language)
Pashto (language); Pashtu
Pashto (language); Pashtu
Hausa (language)
Uzbek (language)
Sindhi (language)
Yoruba (language)
Somali (language)
Oromo (language)
Igbo (language); Ibo
Assamese (language)
Shona (language)
Madurese (language)
Fula (language); Fulani
Serbo-Croat (language); Serbo-Croatian
Miao (language); Hmong
Rwandan (language); Kinyarwanda
Xhosa (language)
Xhosa (language)
Xhosa (language)
Igbo (language); Ibo
Chamorro (language)
Prakrit (language)
German language (esp. as a college class)
Spanish language (esp. as a college class)
Spanish language (esp. as a college class)
Kapampangan (language); Pampangan (language)
Kazakh (language)
Galician (language)
Finnish (language)
Finnish (language)
Dzongkha (language); Bhutanese
Cebuano (language); Cebuan; Bisaya
Lao (language); Laotian
Walloon (language)
Sorbian (language)
Tigrinya (language)
Tigre (language); Tigrayit
Greenlandic (language)
Lao (language); Laotian
Catalan (language)
Catalan (language)
Dinka (language)
Esperanto
Swazi (language)
Tongan (language)
Ido (constructed language)
Nahuatl (language)
European Portuguese; form of Portuguese spoken in Portugal
Sami (language)
Sami (language)
mixed language spoken by Japanese Brazilians
Cia-Cia language; Butonese
Maldivian (language); Dhivehi
Oirat language
Oirat language
babigo; language game of repeating each syllable with an initial "b"
Hiligaynon (language)
Waray (language)
sister language; related language; cognate
auxiliary inflecting word (in Japanese)
discussion; consultation
classification of Japanese words by their origin as Japanese, Chinese or Western
Vietnamese (language)
illustrative word; example word
Manx (language)
hybrid term combining elements drawn from different languages
protolanguage; parent language; root word; word in the parent language
Kyōwa-go; Japanese-based pidgin language spoken in Manchukuo
Southern Min; Minnan; southern branch of Min Chinese
Southern Min; Minnan; southern branch of Min Chinese
Brazilian Portuguese
British English
Vietnamese (language)
etymology of a word; history of a word
Manchukuo dialect
inflected language; fusional language
substratum; substrate
baby talk (used in talking to young children)
word order
Miao (language); Hmong
Buddhist term; teaching of the Buddha; saying of the Buddha; words of the Buddha
rhyme in a Chinese poem
British English
lingua franca; vehicular language; bridge language; intermediary language
Wu Chinese (language)
search term; search word
Indo-European language(s)
Sino-Tibetan (languages)
humble language
Examples (36 in total)
Do you speak Kadazan?
Inuktitut is a difficult language.
I love Turkic languages.