| ASSUAGE | • assuage v. (Transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (Hunger, emotion, pain etc.). • assuage v. (Transitive) To pacify or soothe (someone). • assuage v. (Intransitive, obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (Of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. |
| ESCUAGE | • escuage n. (Historical, Middle Ages) Payment to a lord in lieu of military service. • ESCUAGE n. a tax exacted by a feudal lord. |
| REMUAGE | • remuage n. The process by which sediment in a wine bottle is drawn to the bottle’s neck where it can be removed. • REMUAGE n. (French) the process of turning or shaking wine bottles so that the sediment collects at the cork end for removal. |
| VIDUAGE | • viduage n. Widowhood. • viduage n. Widows generally. • VIDUAGE n. (Latin) widowhood; widows collectively. |
| LANGUAGE | • language n. (Countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by… • language n. (Uncountable) The ability to communicate using words. • language n. (Uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field. |
| MESSUAGE | • messuage n. (Chiefly law) Originally, a plot of land as the site for a dwelling house and its appurtenant interests;… • MESSUAGE n. a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and land. |
| TRUQUAGE | • TRUQUAGE n. (French) the faking of works of art, also TRUCAGE. |
| SLANGUAGE | • slanguage n. (Somewhat informal) A particular vernacular or vocabulary of slang; the jargon or lingo of a particular group. • SLANGUAGE n. a slang language. |
| NONLANGUAGE | • nonlanguage n. That which is not a language. • nonlanguage adj. Not relating to language. • NONLANGUAGE n. something that is not a language. |
| SUBLANGUAGE | • sublanguage n. (Computing) A subset of a language, in particular of a programming language. • sublanguage n. (Linguistics) A language restricted to a specific context, such as a particular subject area. • SUBLANGUAGE n. a subdivision of a language. |
| METALANGUAGE | • metalanguage n. (Linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms… • metalanguage n. (Computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language. • METALANGUAGE n. a language used to talk about language. |
| PARALANGUAGE | • paralanguage n. (Linguistics) The non-verbal elements of speech, and to a limited extent of writing, used to modify… • PARALANGUAGE n. nonverbal elements which affect meaning of speech, as intonation, etc. |
| PROTOLANGUAGE | • protolanguage n. Alternative form of proto-language. • proto-language n. (Linguistics) A language which is reconstructed by examining similarities in existing languages to try… • proto-language n. (Linguistics) The early utterances produced by an infant before it acquires true language. |