Synonyms for Tongue
tʌŋtongue

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1. tonguenoun

   A language.

   He was speaking in his native tongue.

   Synonyms:
   language, lingo

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1. tongue

   Language (French langage < Latin lingua, the tongue) signified originally expression of thought by spoken words, but now in its widest sense it signifies expression of thought by any means; as, the language of the eyes, the language of flowers. As regards the use of words, language in its broadest sense denotes all the uttered sounds and their combinations into words and sentences that human beings employ for the communication of thought, and, in a more limited sense, the words or combinations forming a means of communication among the members of a single nation, people, or race. Speech involves always the power of articulate utterance; we can speak of the language of animals, but not of their speech. A tongue is the speech or language of some one people, country, or race. A dialect is a special mode of speaking a language peculiar to some locality or class, not recognized as in accordance with the best usage; a barbarism is a perversion of a language by ignorant foreigners, or some usage akin to that. Idiom refers to the construction of phrases and sentences, and the way of forming or using words; it is the peculiar mold in which each language casts its thought. The great difficulty of translation is to give the thought expressed in one language in the idiom of another. A dialect may be used by the highest as well as the lowest within its range; a patois is distinctly illiterate, belonging to the lower classes; those who speak a patois understand the cultured form of their own language, but speak only the degraded form, as in the case of the Italian lazzaroni or the former negro slaves in the United States. Vernacular, from the Latin, has the same general sense as the Saxon mother tongue, of one's native language, or that of a people; as, the Scriptures were translated into the vernacular. Compare DICTION.

   Synonyms:
   barbarism, dialect, diction, expression, idiom, language, mother tongue, patois, speech, vernacular, vocabulary

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tongue

   Synonyms:
   discourse, speech, language, dialect, idiom

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. tongue, lingua, glossa, clappernoun

   a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

   Synonyms:
   lingua, glossa, spit, tongue, knife, clapper, natural language, applauder

2. natural language, tonguenoun

   a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

   Synonyms:
   tongue, knife, glossa, clapper, lingua, spit, natural language

3. tongue, knifenoun

   any long thin projection that is transient

   "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"

   Synonyms:
   tongue, natural language, glossa, lingua, spit, knife, clapper

4. tonguenoun

   a manner of speaking

   "he spoke with a thick tongue"; "she has a glib tongue"

   Synonyms:
   natural language, glossa, lingua, spit, knife, clapper

5. spit, tonguenoun

   a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

   Synonyms:
   spittle, expectoration, glossa, lingua, spit, spitting, tongue, saliva, clapper, natural language, knife

6. tonguenoun

   the tongue of certain animals used as meat

   Synonyms:
   natural language, glossa, lingua, spit, knife, clapper

7. tonguenoun

   the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot

   Synonyms:
   natural language, glossa, lingua, spit, knife, clapper

8. clapper, tongueverb

   metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

   Synonyms:
   lingua, glossa, spit, tongue, knife, clapper, natural language, applauder

9. tongueverb

   articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

10. tongueverb

    lick or explore with the tongue

Matched Categories

1. • Cape
   • Flap
   • Language
   • Lick
   • Manner Of Speaking
   • Music
   • Play
   • Projection
   • Variety Meat

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tonguenoun

   Synonyms:
   language, speech, idiom, dialect

2. tonguenoun

   Synonyms:
   talk, discourse

3. tonguenoun

   Synonyms:
   projection, projecting part

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. tonguenoun

   Associated words:
   lingual, glossal, sublingual, fur, tchick, barb, papillæ, lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, frænum, fourchette, raphe

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1. List of paraphrases for "tongue":

   language, maternal, lingua, langue, mother-tongue

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tongue

   Synonyms:
   Lingua

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How to use Tongue in a sentence?

1. Proverb:

   When gold speaks every tongue is silent

2. Octavio Paz:

   Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.

3. Raj Dasgupta:

   What are going to be things that could block or clog or upper airways ? It's going to be the tonsils, the uvula, the soft palate and the tongue.

4. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew:

   My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.

5. Bam Margera:

   I did not know that I had gnarly Covid and my body was shutting down. I went into four seizures, each one lasting 10 to 20 minutes. On the fourth one I bit my tongue so hard it was nearly falling off. It got so swollen and puffy it wouldn’t fit in my mouth. I was drinking the infected blood, which gave me pneumonia, as well. i went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure and then couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat. I woke up five days later thinking I was there for just a couple hours. I spent eight days in there.