VOCABULARY

[noun] - all the words used by a particular person or all the words which exist in a particular language or subjectBy the age of two a child will have a vocabulary of about two hundred words. [C]Reading certainly helps to widen your vocabulary. [C]You do know that swearing is a sign of a limited vocabulary, don't you? [C]New words are coming into the vocabulary (= all the words used in a particular language) all the time. [C]It is said that English has one of the largest vocabularies (= total number of words) of any language. [C]Every week our French teacher gives us a list of vocabulary (= words) to learn. [U]Computing, like any subject, has its own vocabulary (= set of words that it used). [C](figurative humorous) Did you say 'tact'? The word isn't in his vocabulary (= He has none of this quality)! [C]