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AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American sign language mean? 

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. the sign language used in the United Statesplay

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The sign language used in the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

American sign language; ASL

Hypernyms ("American sign language" is a kind of...):

sign language; signing (language expressed by visible hand gestures)

Meronyms (parts of "American sign language"):

finger alphabet; manual alphabet (an alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions)


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