voc-, voca-, vocab-, vocat-, -vocation, -vocative, -vocable, vok-, -voke +

Someone who gives much or undue attention to words.

1. A collection or list of words with brief explanations of their meanings.
2. The range, or extent, of words associated with a subject or area of activity, or used by a particular person, class, profession, etc.
3. The sum, or aggregate, of words composing a language, or languages.
4. Etymology: a stock of words from 1532, in the writing of Sir Tomas More; perhaps borrowed by influence of Middle French vocabulaire, which came from Medieval Latin vocabularium, "a list of words"; from Latin vocabulum, "a word, a name"; from vocare, "to name, to call".

The term "vocabulary" consists of a list of words, usually defined and alphabetized, as in a dictionary or specialized glossary. It is a complete word stock of a language; sum corpus of words used in a sublanguage or by a group, a class, or an individual. It is also considered to be a scope of diction, a command of words, or a range of expressions.

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1. A word or term given in a vocabulary.
2. A word, term, or phrase entered in a dictionary, in some readily distinguishable type, for purposes of definition or identification.

Vocabulary entries may be listed in alphabetical place (main entries), run in within a main entry (additional parts of speech, inflected forms, idioms, etc.), run on at the end of an entry (derivatives and related words), listed under a word, prefix, or combining form (self-explanatory compounds and two-word phrases), or entered in a special section of a book.

Words words.

A pleonasm, or redundancy, since vocabulary is defined as "words"; however, the two elements are now so widely used together that very few people seem to be aware of their redundant existence.

The writer, or maker, of a vocabulary; a lexicographer.

1. Referring to the voice; oral: "There were several vocal protests."
2. Having a voice; endowed with the power of audible utterances.
3. Composed for or performed by the voice; such as, a vocal score.
4. Concerned with the production of a voice; full of voices or sounds.
5. Freely expressing oneself in speech; readily given to voicing opinions.

Consisting of, like, or relating to vowel sounds.

1. The making of vocal sounds; a vowel system.
2. Singing; also, the technique of singing.

A singer; especially, someone who has a cultivated, or trained, voice.

1. The use of uttered sounds for auditory communication.
2. The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract.
3. That which is voiced rather than voiceless.

1. To make vocal; to utter, to say, or to sing.
2. To provide a voice for; to render articulate.
3. To mark with vowel points, as a Hebrew text.
4. In phonetics, to change to or to use as a vowel; to voice.
5. To produce sounds with the voice, as in speaking or singing.

In a vocal manner or expressing opinions or feelings freely or loudly with the voice.

1. A stated or regular occupation; a calling.
2. A call to, or fitness for, a certain career; especially, a religious position.
3. The work or profession for which one has a sense of special fitness.
4. A strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation.

An occupation is often referred to as a "calling", because it is "a call to follow a way of life". The notion that a disembodied "voice" is calling people to a way of life is the basis for the word vocation.

Vocation was borrowed from Middle French, or directly from Latin vocation-, vocatio, "a call" or "a summons"; from vocare, "to call", and is related to voc-, vox, "voice".

The original meaning of vocation in 1426 was "a call from God to follow a spiritual way of life", as in "the priestly vocation" or "the vocation of a nun".

The sense of one's ordinary occupation, or profession, is first recorded in English in 1553; perhaps influenced by that meaning which existed in Middle French.

1. Descriptive terms for a stated or regular occupation; a calling.
2. A reference to a call to, or fitness for, a certain career or job.

1. A reference to or used in the act of calling.
2. In some inflected languages, denoting the case of a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective used in direct address; for example, "Brutus" is the vocative case in Et tu, Brute?