What is "linguistic" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does linguistic mean in English? Meaning of linguistic definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "linguistic" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "linguistic": consisting of or related to language

Adjective

  • Meaning: consisting of or related to language
  • Example: linguistic behavior a linguistic atlas lingual diversity
  • Synonyms: lingual linguistic
  • Antonyms: nonlinguistic
  • Meaning of "linguistic": of or relating to the scientific study of language

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of or relating to the scientific study of language
  • Example: linguistic theory
  • Synonyms: linguistic
  • Adjective: Of or relating to language. 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:  Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:  Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.Of or relating to linguistics. 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-34750-5, page 50: We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-34750-5, page 50: We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.(computing) Relating to a computer language. 1993, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems, CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-8689-3, page 114: The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.1993, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems, CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-8689-3, page 114: The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.
  • Synonyms:

    grammatical, dialectal, phonetic, lingual, etymological, lexemic, lexical, morphological, philological, phonemic, phonological, syntactical,

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    linguistic in English: linguistic
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