word-stock

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English

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Etymology

Compound of word + stock, probably influenced by e.g. German Wortschatz, Danish ordforråd.

Noun

word-stock (plural word-stocks)

  1. (linguistics, puristic) The vocabulary (set of words) of a language.
    Synonyms: word-hoard, lexicon

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