• Linguistic

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/

    Full definition of linguistic

    Adjective

    linguistic

    1. Of or relating to language.
      • 2013-06-14, Sam Leith, Where the profound meets the profane, Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.
    2. Of or relating to linguistics.
      • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first courseWe have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.
    3. (computing) Relating to a computer language.
      • 1993, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems, CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-8689-3, page 114:The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.
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