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linguistic terrains

linguistic terrains is the plural of linguistic terrain.

Meaning of linguistic terrain

Noun

linguistic terrain (countable and uncountable, plural linguistic terrains)

  1. A spatial conception of the character or use of language or languages.
    • The purpose is twofold: to show the reader the lions in the Arabian linguistic terrain, those unions of pattern and meaning in which the language may take special pride; and, where appropriate, to see what formal procedures are used in our own back yard to handle the same semantic task.1987, David Justice, The Semantics of Form in Arabic in the Mirror of European Languages, John Benjamins Publishing, pages 7–8

Questions about linguistic terrains

What is linguistic terrains the plural of?
Linguistic terrains is the plural of linguistic terrain.

Words near linguistic terrains in the dictionary

  1. linguistic imbalances
  2. linguistic landscape
  3. linguistic landscapes
  4. linguistic map
  5. linguistic terrain
  6. linguistic terrains
  7. linguistic turn
  8. linguistic unit
  9. linguistic units
  10. linguistical
  11. linguistically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: linguistic terrains (page history and authors); linguistic terrain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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