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noun • a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language • the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people • the style of a particular artist or school or movement • an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up | ||||||||
38% | 12 | Areas of study concerned with dictionaries and their contents | ||||||
noun • the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language | ||||||||
28% | 9 | Used in some dictionaries to enclose definitions | ||||||
noun • Either of the punctuation marks « or », used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as “ and ”. | ||||||||
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