What is another word for "cant"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "cant": abuse, accent, acclivity, agnomen, all, ambiguity, anagram, and, antiphrasis, antonomasia, antonym, archaic, archaism, argot, ascent, babu, bank, baptism, baptize, barbarism, beach, bean, bend, bevel, bias, black, brogue, broken, by-name, byword, call, caption, characterize, christen, clepe, clinch, cognomen, cognominal, cognomination, coin.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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