context of use

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   discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

   Synonymscontextlinguistic context

   Broaderdiscourse

Questions about context of use

What does context of use mean?

context of use means "discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation".

What is another word for context of use?

Close synonyms include context, linguistic context. 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 context of use a common word?

context of use 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.