vocabulary word

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vocabulary word

noun vocabulary words

  1. US A word which a student is expected to learn; a word included in a test of one's general vocabulary or of subject-specific terminology The teacher then held up a real food item of each vocabulary word and asked the students to repeat each word in Spanish.

    Similar: vocabulary item

  2. US, broadly, informal A newly learned word; a sophisticated or pretentious word They are — here's a new vocabulary word — anadromous, which means that when it's time for them to spawn, they return to the fresh water where they were born.
  3. An ordinary dictionary word, as opposed to a name or neologism Donna—Of recent origin (not found as a name before the 1920s). Derived from the Italian vocabulary word donna "lady" and also used as a feminine form of Donald.

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noun one of the common words of a language

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@misc{vocabulary_word_2026,
  title = {vocabulary word},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vocabulary%20word},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}