american sign language

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   the sign language used in the United States

   SynonymsASL

   Broadersign language

   Partsmanual alphabet

Questions about american sign language

What does american sign language mean?

american sign language means "the sign language used in the United States".

What is another word for american sign language?

Close synonyms include ASL. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american sign language a common word?

american sign language is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.