tonguage
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Language; spoken language, as opposed to other forms of language (body language, written language, etc.).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Whether the ideas underlying them are expressed and conveyed by eyeage or by tonguage is a detail that matters nothing."
- "I like the French now but can't get on with the Italian tonguage (good word)."
- "In all the districts of Maharashtra except Aurangabad and Bhandara, the number of persons who returned Hindi as a subsidiary language outnumber those with Hindi as mother tonguage."
- "We have a language of social relations, even though we're not thoroughly aware of it— but it isn't all "language" in the sense of "tonguage.""