Library / English Dictionary

SIGN LANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Language expressed by visible hand gestures

Synonyms:

sign language; signing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sign language" is a kind of...):

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

Meronyms (parts of "sign language"):

sign (a gesture that is part of a sign language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sign language"):

finger spelling; fingerspelling (an alphabet of manual signs)

American sign language; ASL (the sign language used in the United States)

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