linguistic universal

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   (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages

   Synonymsuniversal

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Questions about linguistic universal

What does linguistic universal mean?

linguistic universal means "(linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages".

What is another word for linguistic universal?

Close synonyms include universal. 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 linguistic universal a common word?

linguistic universal 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.