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vocabulation

vocabulation noun: the use of one's vocabulary; selection of words.

Noun

vocabulation (usually uncountable, plural vocabulations)

  1. (usually) The use of one's vocabulary; selection of words.
    • In no other way can we avoid as a people the attribute ascribed to one of the characters of a novel I once read : a man who was said to have "a mind not exactly intellectual but felicitous in vocabulation."1926, Ernest Martin Hopkins, Man and His Fellows: Lectures on the Henry La Barre Jayne Foundation, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 1925, page 83

Forms of vocabulation

pluralvocabulations

Questions about vocabulation

What does vocabulation mean?
Vocabulation means the use of one's vocabulary; selection of words.
What part of speech is vocabulation?
Vocabulation is a noun.
What is the plural of vocabulation?
The plural of vocabulation is vocabulations.

Words near vocabulation in the dictionary

  1. vocabularize
  2. vocabulary
  3. vocabulary word
  4. vocabulary words
  5. vocabularyclept
  6. vocabulation
  7. vocabulations
  8. vocabulist
  9. vocabulists
  10. vocabulize
  11. vocal

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