Synonyms for tongue
Most common
language dialect idiom glossa mouth natural language spit speaking in tongues
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
2. Lingua — the flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into…
Other
mouth, speaking in tongues, word, spit, natural language, shaft, knife, theed rare, atheed rare
Definitions
- n. 1
The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,
- n. 2
A language.
He was speaking in his native tongue.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- tongues → languages, idioms, speeches, dialects…
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A tongue is the speech or language of some one people, country, or race.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- language Few people can speak a foreign language perfectly.
- dialect He always makes fun of her because of her dialect.
- idiom That idiom is as phony as a coin with my face on it.
- mouth Grandfather talked to me with a pipe in his mouth.
By length
- 4 letters
- talk1, word1, spit1
- 5 letters
- mouth1, knife1, shaft1, idiom3, lingo2, theed
- 6 letters
- speech1, lingua2, glossa, atheed
- 7 letters
- dialect3, clapper2
- 8 letters
- language2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (idiom3 = 3 syllables).