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parlance

 
Dictionary: par·lance   (pär'ləns) pronunciation
n.
  1. A particular manner of speaking; idiom: legal parlance.
  2. Speech, especially a conversation or parley.

[Middle French, from Old French, from parler, to speak. See parley.]


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noun

    Choice of words and the way in which they are used: diction, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, verbalism, wordage, wording. See words.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
  Synonym: idiom


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - sprogbrug

Nederlands (Dutch)
spraakgebruik, woordkeuze

Français (French)
n. - langage, parler

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sprache

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τρόπος ομιλίας, φραστικό ύφος

Italiano (Italian)
parlata

Português (Portuguese)
n. - jargão (m)

Русский (Russian)
манера выражаться, язык

Español (Spanish)
n. - habla, lenguaje

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - språkbruk

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
谈话, 用法, 说法

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 談話, 用法, 說法

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 말투, 어법, 토론

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 語法, 話し方

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) لغه, كلام‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮עגה, ניב, לשון‬


 
 
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