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# linguistic

«linguistic» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do with language or languages** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (linguistic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To do with language or languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linguistic/#m1)

2) To do with linguistics, the science that studies how languages work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linguistic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English and language lessons: linguistic skills (reading, writing, speaking), linguistic features of a text (word choice, sentence types). In schools with many home languages, teachers talk of linguistic diversity. Phrases: linguistic skills, linguistic features, linguistic diversity, linguistic puzzle (as in olympiad language puzzles).

### examples

- She has great linguistic skills and speaks four languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linguistic/#x1)
- Our class has a lot of linguistic diversity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linguistic/#x2)
- We listed the linguistic features of a persuasive letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linguistic/#x3)
- The olympiad had a linguistic puzzle about an unknown language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linguistic/#x4)
- Babies learn language through linguistic games like rhymes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linguistic/#x5)
- The museum shows the linguistic history of English. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linguistic/#x6)
- A linguistic expert studied how the children in the town spoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linguistic/#x7)

### note

Adjective only. Noun: linguistics (the science), linguist (a person who studies or speaks many languages). Pronounced ling-GWIS-tik. Spelling: «-guis-», not «-gis-».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «linguistic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linguistic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.