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sign glosses

sign glosses is the plural of sign gloss.

Meaning of sign gloss

Noun

sign gloss (plural sign glosses)

  1. (sign linguistics) A gloss representing a sign (linguistic unit in sign language), typically in the spoken language of the region.
    • Each illustration in the dictionary is accompanied by a sign gloss, like CAT or HAPPY.

Questions about sign glosses

What is sign glosses the plural of?
Sign glosses is the plural of sign gloss.

Words near sign glosses in the dictionary

  1. sign bit
  2. sign bits
  3. sign function
  4. sign functions
  5. sign gloss
  6. sign glosses
  7. sign in
  8. sign into
  9. sign into law
  10. sign language
  11. sign languages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sign glosses (page history and authors); sign gloss (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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