Category:English terms by usage

English terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:English archaic terms: English terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:English autological terms: English terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
• Category:English censored spellings: English spellings where some characters have been changed in an effort to reduce the shock value of the original term.
• Category:English childish terms: English terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:English colloquialisms: English terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:English corporate jargon: English terms (typically for non-business-specific concepts) that are used especially in a business or corporate context.
• Category:English dated terms: English terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:English derogatory terms: English terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:English dialectal terms: English terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:English ecclesiastical terms: English terms used only by religious figures.
• Category:English endearing terms: English terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:English familiar terms: English terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:English formal terms: English terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:English gender-neutral terms: English terms that are applicable to all people, independent of gender.
• Category:English hapax legomena: English terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
• Category:English higher register terms: English terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:English historical terms: English terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
• Category:English honorific terms: English honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:English humorous terms: English terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:English informal terms: English terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:English journalistic terms: English terms that are used especially in journalistic language, i.e. in newspapers and magazines.
• Category:English men's speech terms: English terms and forms used in men's speech.
• Category:English nonstandard terms: English terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:English obsolete terms: English terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:English offensive terms: English terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:English officialese terms: English terms that are chiefly used by official sources, and are often bureaucratic-sounding.
• Category:English oxymorons: English terms that are juxtapositions of opposing ideas.
• Category:English placeholder terms: English terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
• Category:English poetic terms: English terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:English polite terms: English polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:English post-nominal letters: English Post-nominal letters - also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles or designatory letters are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that the individual holds a position, educational degree, accreditation, office, military decoration, or honour, or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity.
• Category:English proscribed terms: English terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:English puristic terms: English terms adopted for linguistic purism.
• Category:English rare terms: English terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
• Category:English royal terms: English terms used only by royalty.
• Category:English rustic terms: English terms whose use is typically restricted rural speech.
• Category:English self-deprecatory terms: English self-deprecatory terms.
• Category:English short forms: English terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:English slang: English colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:English technical terms: English terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
• Category:English terms of address: English terms used to refer to another person.
• Category:English terms with archaic senses: English terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:English terms with historical senses: English terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:English terms with obsolete senses: English terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:English terms with rare senses: English rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:English terms with transferred senses: English terms with transferred senses.
• Category:English terms with uncertain meaning: English terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
• Category:English terms with uncommon senses: English uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:English trademarks: English terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:English uncommon terms: English uncommonly used terms.
• Category:English vulgarities: English terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
• Category:English women's speech terms: English terms and forms used in women's speech.