language
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/
A body of words, and set of methods of combining them, understood by a community and used as a form of communication; The ability to communicate using words; A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field; The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract
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- languages
Meanings
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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
We speak the same language.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
Write it in your language!
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The ability to communicate using words
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A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field
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The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract
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The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does
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A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicaterare
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A computer language; a machine languagerare
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A manner of expressionrare
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The particular words used in a speech or a passage of textrare
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Profanityrare