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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
lingual is an adjective and noun meaning "consisting of or related to language". It carries 3 recorded senses.
consisting of or related to language
“linguistic behavior”
“a linguistic atlas”
“lingual diversity”
pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue
“lingual inflammation”
“the lingual surface of the teeth”
a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lingual come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.