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in someone's vocabulary

in someone's vocabulary phrase: a concept that (someone) would normally consider.

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in someone's vocabulary

  1. A concept that (someone) would normally consider.
    • Sin is a word which occurs scantily in his vocabulary. Crime was what horrified him, an offence against God because it was an offence against man and especially against children.1964, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, Dickens in His Time, page 178
    • Failure, however, was not in his vocabulary.2018, Egerton Ryerson Young, Three Boys in the Wild North Land, page 71
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, vocabulary.
    • Although John has equivalent terms in French and English for some items, he knows some words only in English, and other words only in French, with no equivalent English word in his vocabulary.2016, Janet L. Patterson, “Child Language Disorders Across Languages, Cultural Contexts and Syndromes”, in Janet L. Patterson, Barbara L. Rodríguez, editors, Multilingual Perspectives on Child...

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What does in someone's vocabulary mean?
In someone's vocabulary means a concept that (someone) would normally consider.
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Words near in someone's vocabulary in the dictionary

  1. in someone's light
  2. in someone's pocket
  3. in someone's shoes
  4. in someone's time
  5. in someone's view
  6. in someone's vocabulary
  7. in someone's way
  8. in something's favor
  9. in something's way
  10. in sooth
  11. in sort

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