somebody's passive vocabulary (=the words they can understand but do not use ) Your passive vocabulary is much larger than your active vocabulary. somebody's active vocabulary (=the words they can use ) Children of this age have an active vocabulary of about 1,000 words. technical/specialized vocabulary The instructions were full of technical vocabulary. basic/essential vocabulary The book teaches you the basic vocabulary that you need to know when you're on holiday. limited/small He had just started learning English and his vocabulary was fairly limited. 5 → (the word) failure/guilt/compromise etc is not in somebody’s vocabulary 6 SLL TCN old-fashioned a list of words with explanations of their meanings, especially in a book for learning a foreign language COLLOCATIONS – Meanings 1 & 2 adjectives large/wide/extensive She has a very wide vocabulary. vocabulary of the vocabulary of politics 4 the range of possible features, effects, actions etc, especially in a type of music or art vocabulary of Charlie Parker expanded the vocabulary of jazz. 3 SL LANGUAGE the words that are typically used when talking about a particular subject Most technical jobs use a specialized vocabulary. 2 SLL all the words in a particular language English has the largest vocabulary of any language. S3 noun ( plural vocabularies ) 1 SL all the words that someone knows or uses Teachers were impressed by his vocabulary.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Linguistics, Languages vocabulary vo‧cab‧u‧la‧ry / vəˈkæbjələri, vəʊ- $ -leri, voʊ- /
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