Cant
Cant noun - The special terms or expressions of a particular group or field.
Usage example: the colorful cant used by movie producers and publicity agents in Hollywood
Language
Language noun - The stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication.
Usage example: Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and other countries where English is the dominant language
Show all Definitions
Synonyms for Language
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| particular | particular cant | particular language |
| single | single cant | single language |
| written | written cant | written language |
Both words in one sentence
- A few Romani words entered the German language via the Rotwelsch cant mentioned above in the section on Yiddish.
Source: Useful Notes / German Dialects - Yiddish (and through it Hebrew) words entered the language of the general population, largely through Jews and gentiles living together, partly via the detour of Rotwelsch, the cant spoken by criminals and vagrants, which also had a big influence on the secret shibboleths etc.
Source: Useful Notes / German Dialects - This cant is often the working language of a Thieves' Guild.
Source: Thieves' Cant
Cite this Source
Language and Cant. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cant/language
Cant & Language. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cant/language>.
Language or Cant. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cant/language.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "cant" and "language" have occurred on timeline