common parlance
Ordinary spoken language
Common parlance is everyday speech—the way ordinary people talk as opposed to technical, legal, or specialized language.
The phrase typically appears in constructions like in common parlance to signal that a simpler or more familiar term is being used: What doctors call hypertension is known in common parlance as high blood pressure.
- wordLinguistic meaning unit
- layman's termsNon-specialist phrasing
- plain EnglishUnadorned, accessible wording
- idiomFixed phrase, opaque meaning
- turn of phraseDistinctive verbal expression
talk · slang · street talk · plain speech · vernacular · colloquialism · everyday language · everyday speech · neologism · expression · phraseology · dialect · voice · plain language · in other words · day to day · register · lexicon
- simplificationsimplification, simplifying, simplify, condensing, simplified
- slangslang, jargon, lingo, argot, cant
- Casualcasual Friday, casual wear, casual conversation, dress down, hangout
common parlancejargon
Specialized professional vocabulary
technical terminology · specialized language · insider language · bureaucratese · legalese
common parlanceelevated language
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