linguistic

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪstɪk
• Hyphenation: lin‧guis‧tic

Adjective

linguistic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to language.
   • 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:

     Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.

2. Of or relating to linguistics.
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.

3. (computing) Relating to a computer language.
   • 1993, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 114:

     The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.

Anagrams

• linguicist

Adjective

linguistic m pl

1. plural of linguistich