What is another word for parlance?

Pronunciation: [pˈɑːləns] (IPA)

Parlance is a term used to describe a particular way of speaking or using language. There are several synonyms for the word, including jargon, dialect, and vernacular. Jargon refers to language that is specific to a particular group or industry, while dialect is a variation of a language spoken in a certain area. Vernacular, on the other hand, describes the language used by ordinary people in daily life. Other synonyms for parlance include discourse, language, expression, and speech. Each of these words describes the way in which people communicate and use language in different contexts. Whether it's formal or informal, specialized or universal, language shapes how we understand and interact with the world around us.

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What are the paraphrases for Parlance?

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What are the hypernyms for Parlance?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for parlance?

Antonyms for the word "parlance" include silence, quiet, and muteness. Silence refers to the complete absence of sound or noise, while quiet denotes a state of calmness or peace. Muteness indicates a condition where there is a lack of ability or willingness to speak. Other antonyms for parlance include vagueness, obscurity, and ambiguity, which indicate a lack of clarity or definition. In contrast, clarity, lucidity, and precision are synonyms that describe a state of being clear and easily understood. Ultimately, the choice of words and language can have a significant impact on how effectively a message is conveyed, and selecting the appropriate antonym for parlance can help to better communicate one's intentions.

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Usage examples for Parlance

I was wondering what her cousin was, in vulgar parlance, "up to."
"Four Meetings"
Henry James
In native parlance this ordeal is designated as 'chopping nut.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
They named their poison, in the parlance of the neighbourhood, and stood to their glasses like so many valiant gunners.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory

Famous quotes with Parlance

  • India has its own full-fledged brand of negationism: a movement to deny the large-scale and long-term crimes against humanity committed by Islam. This movement is led by Islamic apologists and Marxist academics, and followed by all the politicians, journalists and intellectuals who call themselves secularists. In contrast to the European negationism regarding the Nazi acts of genocide, but similar to the Turkish negationism regarding the Armenian genocide, the Indian negationism regarding the terrible record of Islam is fully supported by the establishment. It has nearly full control of the media and dictates all state and government parlance concerning the communal problem (more properly to be called the Islam problem).
    Koenraad Elst
  • Without really noticing, the Western press has become the mouth-piece of the Marxist-Muslim alliance which dictates political parlance in India. I assume only a few frontline journalists are conscious participants in the ongoing disinformation campaign.
    Koenraad Elst
  • My whole life, I have sought comfort in individualism. I escaped the banality of my background with the flamboyance of my haircut, the low expectations of my class with the grandiosity of my parlance, and the fear of being ordinary by becoming a professional weirdo. In a way, my success in show business represents little more than the harvesting of my psychosis. I made my idiosyncrasies and flaws beneficial by exaggerating them.
    Russell Brand
  • Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the frequently heard phrase: PEOPLE DO NOT THINK.
    Ernest Dimnet
  • In Swami Dayananda's view, the term Arya was not coterminous with the term Hindu. The classical meaning of the word Arya is 'noble'. It is used as an honorific term of address, used in addressing the honoured ones in ancient Indian parlance. The term Hindu is reluctantly accepted as a descriptive term for the contemporary Hindu society and all its varied beliefs and practices, while the term Arya is normative and designates Hinduism as it ought to be. ... Elsewhere in Hindu society, 'Arya' was and is considered a synonym for 'Hindu', except that it may be broader, viz. by unambiguously including Buddhism and Jainism. Thus, the Constitution of the 'independent, indivisible and sovereign monarchical Hindu kingdom' (Art.3:1) of Nepal take care to include the Buddhist minority by ordaining the king to uphold 'Aryan culture and Hindu religion' (Art.20: 1). ... The Arya Samaj's misgivings about the term Hindu already arose in tempore non suspecto, long before it became a dirty Word under Jawaharlal Nehru and a cause of legal disadvantage under the 1950 Constitution. Swami Dayananda Saraswati rightly objected that the term had been given by foreigners (who, moreover, gave all kinds of derogatory meanings to it) and considered that dependence on an exonym is a bit sub-standard for a highly literate and self-expressive civilization. This argument retains a certain validity: the self-identification of Hindus as 'Hindu' can never be more than a second-best option. On the other hand, it is the most practical choice in the short run, and most Hindus don't seem to pine for an alternative.
    Koenraad Elst

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