Usually means: Pointing via language in context.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. deixis: Merriam-Webster
  2. deixis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deixis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deixis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deixis: Vocabulary.com
  6. deixis: Wordnik
  7. deixis: Wiktionary
  8. deixis: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. deixis: Dictionary.com
  10. Deixis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. deixis: Rhymezone
  12. deixis: FreeDictionary.org
  13. deixis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. deixis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. deixis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Deixis: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Deixis: Lexicon of Linguistics

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noun:  (linguistics) The use of a word, such as a pronoun, to refer to something that must be identified from the wider context; a word used in such a way.

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