Category:Tamil terms by usage
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Tamil terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Tamil archaic terms: Tamil terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Tamil childish terms: Tamil terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
- Category:Tamil colloquialisms: Tamil terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Tamil dated terms: Tamil terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
- Category:Tamil derogatory terms: Tamil terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Tamil dialectal terms: Tamil terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Tamil formal terms: Tamil terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
- Category:Tamil higher register terms: Tamil terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Tamil historical terms: Tamil terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
- Category:Tamil honorific terms: Tamil honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
- Category:Tamil informal terms: Tamil terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
- Category:Tamil nonstandard terms: Tamil terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Tamil obsolete terms: Tamil terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Tamil offensive terms: Tamil terms that are typically considered to offend people.
- Category:Tamil poetic terms: Tamil terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Tamil polite terms: Tamil polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
- Category:Tamil rare terms: Tamil terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
- Category:Tamil slang: Tamil colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
- Category:Tamil terms with archaic senses: Tamil terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Tamil terms with historical senses: Tamil terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Tamil terms with obsolete senses: Tamil terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Tamil terms with rare senses: Tamil rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Tamil terms with uncommon senses: Tamil uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Tamil vulgarities: Tamil terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 24 subcategories, out of 24 total.
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C
- Tamil childish terms (0 c, 3 e)
- Tamil colloquialisms (0 c, 134 e)
D
- Tamil derogatory terms (0 c, 16 e)
- Tamil dialectal terms (0 c, 28 e)
F
- Tamil formal terms (0 c, 4 e)
H
- Tamil historical terms (0 c, 3 e)
- Tamil honorific terms (0 c, 21 e)
I
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O
- Tamil obsolete terms (0 c, 14 e)
- Tamil offensive terms (0 c, 1 e)
P
- Tamil poetic terms (0 c, 6 e)
- Tamil polite terms (0 c, 3 e)
R
- Tamil rare terms (0 c, 15 e)
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T
- Tamil terms with archaic senses (0 c, 59 e)
- Tamil terms with historical senses (0 c, 35 e)
- Tamil terms with rare senses (0 c, 29 e)
- Tamil terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 3 e)
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- Tamil vulgarities (0 c, 17 e)