vocabulary A2 Topic:People & Society US /voʊˈkæb.jəˌlɛ.ɹi/ UK /və(ʊ)ˈkæb.jʊ.lə.ɹɪ/ See IPA manual Freq #13960 Meanings 1 noun The set of words a person knows and uses. My Russian vocabulary is very limited. 2 noun All the words of a language. The vocabulary of any language is shaped by contact with other cultures. 3 noun The set of words used in a particular subject or field. Medical vocabulary can be hard for ordinary people to understand. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · the set of words a person... word-stock 2 noun · all the words of a language. lexicon More dictionary Word family Forms vocabularies Related forms vocablevocal Common collocations wide vocabulary Adjective + noun Etymology AI details Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vocābulārium. Doublet of vocabularium. *wekʷ- Proto-Indo-European vocābulārium la-med View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # vocabulary **Type:** Word **Level:** A2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /voʊˈkæb.jəˌlɛ.ɹi/ **IPA (UK):** /və(ʊ)ˈkæb.jʊ.lə.ɹɪ/ **Frequency rank:** 13960 ## Meanings 1. The set of words a person knows and uses. 2. All the words of a language. 3. The set of words used in a particular subject or field. ## Examples - My Russian vocabulary is very limited. - The vocabulary of any language is shaped by contact with other cultures. - Medical vocabulary can be hard for ordinary people to understand. ## Synonyms - dictionary ## Related Forms - vocable - vocal ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *wekʷ- - Root: vocābulārium ## Etymology Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vocābulārium. Doublet of vocabularium. ## AI Etymology Vocabulary is a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vocābulārium. Doublet of vocabularium. Important historical forms include Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-, and Medieval Latin vocābulārium. In present-day use, it can mean the set of words a person knows and uses, or all the words of a language. Related words include vocable, vocal. ## Topics - People & Society markdown