A vocabulary is a named collection of Words. Vocabularies are defined in the vocabs vocabulary.

Vocabularies are stored in a global hashtable:

dictionary

Vocabularies form a class.

vocab

vocab? ( object -- ? )

Various vocabulary words are overloaded to accept a vocabulary specifier, which is a string naming the vocabulary, the vocab instance itself, or a vocab-link:

vocab-link

>vocab-link ( name -- vocab )

Looking up vocabularies by name:

vocab

Accessors for various vocabulary attributes:

vocab-name ( vocab-spec -- name )

vocab-main ( vocab-spec -- main )

vocab-help ( vocab-spec -- help )

Looking up existing vocabularies and creating new vocabularies:

lookup-vocab ( vocab-spec -- vocab )

loaded-child-vocab-names ( vocab-spec -- seq )

create-vocab ( name -- vocab )

Getting words from a vocabulary:

vocab-words-assoc ( vocab-spec -- assoc/f )

vocab-words ( vocab-spec -- seq )

all-words ( -- seq )

words-named ( str -- seq )

Removing a vocabulary:

forget-vocab ( vocab -- )

See also
Words, Vocabulary loader, Parse-time word lookup