Language

Quick meaning: Language is a noun meaning (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.

Meaning

(uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
2. (uncountable) The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
3. (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
4. (uncountable) A manner of expression.
5. (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
6. (countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
7. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.

Example Sentences

No language could express his rage and despair.

Deaf and mute people communicate using sign language.

The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.

Mr. Darko, generally acknowledged to be the last surviving member of the Ofo Tribe, was also the last remaining speaker of the tribe's language.

Word Forms

• languages
• languaging
• languaged

Synonyms for language

Depending on context, synonyms include jargon, wording, lingo, speech, tongue, nomenclature.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include speech, nomenclature, terminology, lyric, words, langue.

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