Antonyms 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

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1. tongue

   Synonyms:
   discourse, speech, language, dialect, idiom

Matched Categories

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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, 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:
   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:
   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, 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, knife, clapper, natural language, applauder

9. tongueverb

   articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

10. tongueverb

    lick or explore with the tongue

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

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

1. tongue

   Synonyms:
   Lingua

How to use tongue in a sentence?

1. Christopher Faraone:

   Most of the curses are what we call binding spells: they aim at binding or inhibiting the performance of a rival. A lot of them have to do with legal cases. They say things like, Bind the tongue and the thoughts of so-and-so, who is about to testify against me on Monday, we have some that are aimed at rival musicians or actors, and a couple that seem to be connected with athletics. We have some that run something like this, Bind Helen, so that she is unsuccessful when she flirts or makes love with Demetrius. But the great majority of them seem to be connected with lawsuits.

2. Benjamin Franklin:

   In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

3. Horace Walpole:

   I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

4. Saadi Shirazi:

   Hast thou not perfect excellence, ?tis best To keep thy tongue in silence, for ?tis this Which shames a man; as lightness does attest The nut is empty, nor of value is.

5. The KCNA:

   Such reckless move of the military warmongers of the south side is the height of the military confrontation which would leave tongue-tied even their master, everything is now going back to the starting point before the north-south summit meeting in 2018.

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