[U] (linguistics) the study of the way in which language is used to express what sb really means in particular situations, especially when the actual words used may appear to mean sth different
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for pragmatics is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pragmatics a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pragmatics is tagged as noun.
Does pragmatics appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — pragmatics appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
