cant+language
21cant — 1. n. & v. n. 1 insincere pious or moral talk. 2 ephemeral or fashionable catchwords. 3 language peculiar to a class, profession, sect, etc.; jargon. v.intr. use cant. Phrases and idioms: canting arms Heraldry arms containing an allusion to the… …
22cant — I noun 1) religious cant Syn: hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, pietism 2) thieves cant Syn: slang, jargon, idiom, argot, patois, speech, terminology, language; …
23cant — 1. noun /kænt/ a) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup. He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger. b) A private or secret language used …
24cant — cant1 [kant] noun 1》 hypocritical and sanctimonious talk. 2》 derogatory language peculiar to a specified group: thieves cant. ↘[as modifier] denoting a phrase or catchword temporarily current. verb dated talk hypocritically and… …
25cant — I. /kænt / (say kant) noun 1. insincere statements, especially conventional pretence of enthusiasm for high ideals; insincere expressions of goodness or piety. 2. a. a secret language or jargon formerly spoken by the criminal class in England in… …
26language — n 1. speech, tongue, dialect, parlance, idiolect; vernacular, common speech, vulgate, vulgar tongue; mother tongue, native tongue, parent language, linguistic stock; slang, idiom, vulgarism, colloquialism, vernacularism, archaism; patois, pidgin …
27language — noun 1) the structure of language Syn: speech, writing, communication, conversation, speaking, talking, talk, discourse; words, vocabulary 2) the English language Syn: tongue, mother …
28cant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pretense, hypocrisy, insincerity; tilt, obliquity; argot, lingo, jargon. See impiety, falsehood, concealment, speech. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Insincere talk] Syn. hypocrisy, sham, humbug, lip service;… …
29language — Synonyms and related words: Abnaki, Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Afro Asiatic, Ainu, Akan, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, Algonquin, Amharic, Anatolian, Anatolic, Andaman, Annamese, Anzanite, Apache, Arabic, Aramaic, Araucanian, Arawak,… …
30cant — I. n. 1. Whining talk, pious prating, sanctimonious phrases. 2. Hypocrisy, affected piety, sham holiness. 3. Peculiar form of speech, professional parlance, partisan vocabulary, shibboleths of sect, popular cry. 4. Slang, jargon, low language,… …
