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Language

noun
[ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
Word Frequency: 163.5

Definitions

1.nounA body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
"Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL."
2.nounThe ability to communicate using words.
"the gift of language"
3.nounA sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
"legal language;   the language of chemistry"
4.nounThe expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
"body language;   the language of the eyes"
5.nounA body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
6.nounA computer language; a machine language.
7.nounManner of expression.
8.nounThe particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
"The language he used to talk to me was obscene."
9.nounProfanity.
10.verbTo communicate by language; to express in language.

Synonyms

computer languagemachine languageprogramming languagespeechnomenclatureterminologylyricwordslinguistic communicationlinguistic processoral communicationspoken language
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