Synonyms and Antonyms for tongue
1. tongue (n.)
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
2. tongue-in-cheek (adj.)
cleverly amusing in tone
3. tongue (n.)
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- Austronesian
- Dravidic
- Chukchi language
- American Indian
- Khoisan
- Miao
- American-Indian language
- Indian
- Eskimo-Aleut language
- Amerind
- first language
- Hmong
- Cassite
- Kassite
- Caucasian
- Hamito-Semitic
- Elamite
- Afrasian language
- Nilo-Saharan
- Amerindian language
- Afroasiatic
- Caucasian language
- Elamitic
- Afrasian
- Sino-Tibetan
- Sino-Tibetan language
- Austro-Asiatic
- Hmong language
- Khoisan language
- Indo-European language
- creole
- Afroasiatic language
- Indo-European
- mother tongue
- linguistic communication
- Susian
- Chukchi
- Ural-Altaic
- Dravidian language
- Papuan language
- Nilo-Saharan language
- Papuan
- Austro-Asiatic language
- Indo-Hittite
- natural language
- tonal language
- Niger-Kordofanian
- language
- Eskimo-Aleut
- Munda-Mon-Khmer
- Afro-Asiatic
- maternal language
- Basque
- Austronesian language
- Dravidian
- tone language
- Niger-Kordofanian language
4. tongue (n.)
any long thin projection that is transient
5. tongue (n.)
a manner of speaking
7. tongue (v.)
articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
8. tongue (n.)
metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
10. tongue (n.)
the tongue of certain animals used as meat
