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an agglutinative language joins words together to make new words

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used for referring to an ancient form of a language used during a time when important literature was written

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cognate words or languages have the same origin

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connected with a particular context

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relating to languages that are creoles

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a dead language such as Latin is no longer used by people in their ordinary lives

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disyllabic words have two syllables

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an extinct animal, plant, or language no longer exists

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if you use words in a figurative way, you use them not in their normal literal meaning but in a way that makes a description more interesting or impressive

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using words not in their normal literal meaning but in a way that makes a description more interesting or impressive

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containing idioms or consisting of an idiom

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an inflected language has words that inflect

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relating to languages, words, or linguistics

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the literal meaning of a word is its most basic meaning

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in the most basic, obvious meanings of the words that are used

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a metaphorical word, phrase, image, etc. is intended to represent or emphasize particular aspects of something else

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using metaphors

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a monosyllabic word has only one syllable

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your native language or native tongue is the first language that you learn, usually in the country where you were born

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nonstandard forms of language are different from those that are usually considered to be correct

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used with the names of languages to refer to the form of the language that was used in the past

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used for describing words or phrases that you use for social reasons, for example in order to be friendly, rather than in order to give information

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used for describing speech or language in which a foreign language is mixed with the speaker’s first language

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a polysemous word has more than one meaning

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used when you are describing something with an expression from a proverb

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used to describe a very long word with many syllables

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spoken language is things that people say, not things that they write

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if two words are synonymous, they have the same meaning or almost the same meaning

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a tautological statement, sentence, etc. repeats its meaning in an unnecessary way by using different words to say the same thing

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technical language is difficult to understand for people who do not know a lot about the subject

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an umbrella word is used for talking about a lot of specific things of the same general type

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an unmarked word or phrase is generally used in normal English instead of being, for example, formal or informal

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difficult to pronounce

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