"avoidance speech" meaning in English

See avoidance speech in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From avoidance + speech. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|avoidance|speech}} avoidance + speech Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} avoidance speech (uncountable)
  1. (linguistics) a special restricted speech style in certain languages used to refer to taboo subjects, or as a sign of respect in the presence of certain people, while doing certain activities, following a death, etc., distinguished by a specialized lexicon. Wikipedia link: avoidance speech Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: avoidance language Translations (mother-in-law language): Vermeidungssprache [feminine] (German)
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "avoidance",
        "3": "speech"
      },
      "expansion": "avoidance + speech",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From avoidance + speech.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "avoidance speech (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a special restricted speech style in certain languages used to refer to taboo subjects, or as a sign of respect in the presence of certain people, while doing certain activities, following a death, etc., distinguished by a specialized lexicon."
      ],
      "id": "en-avoidance_speech-en-noun-L~nEKS5y",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "special",
          "special"
        ],
        [
          "restricted",
          "restricted"
        ],
        [
          "taboo",
          "taboo"
        ],
        [
          "lexicon",
          "lexicon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) a special restricted speech style in certain languages used to refer to taboo subjects, or as a sign of respect in the presence of certain people, while doing certain activities, following a death, etc., distinguished by a specialized lexicon."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "avoidance language"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "mother-in-law language",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Vermeidungssprache"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "avoidance speech"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "avoidance speech"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "avoidance",
        "3": "speech"
      },
      "expansion": "avoidance + speech",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From avoidance + speech.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "avoidance speech (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a special restricted speech style in certain languages used to refer to taboo subjects, or as a sign of respect in the presence of certain people, while doing certain activities, following a death, etc., distinguished by a specialized lexicon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "special",
          "special"
        ],
        [
          "restricted",
          "restricted"
        ],
        [
          "taboo",
          "taboo"
        ],
        [
          "lexicon",
          "lexicon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) a special restricted speech style in certain languages used to refer to taboo subjects, or as a sign of respect in the presence of certain people, while doing certain activities, following a death, etc., distinguished by a specialized lexicon."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "avoidance speech"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "avoidance language"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "mother-in-law language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Vermeidungssprache"
    }
  ],
  "word": "avoidance speech"
}

Download raw JSONL data for avoidance speech meaning in English (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.