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.