language

Meaning

Noun

1. (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.
2. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
3. (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
5. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
6. (countable) A computer language; a machine language.
7. (uncountable) A manner of expression.
8. (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
9. (euphemistic, uncountable) Profanity.

Verb

To communicate by language; to express in language.

Intj

An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.

Synonyms

speech

tongue

👅

word

dialect

words

voice

talk

🗣️

sound

🔉

terminology

nomenclature

wording

linguistic

𐑊𐐰𐑍𐑀𐐶𐐮𐐾

pronunciation

way of talking

parlance

term

linguistic communication

noise

discourse

lingo

accent

big words

phrase

linguistic process

conversation

oral communication

what people say

Hebrew

way of speaking

spoken communication

message

story

utterance

lyric

speech communication

speak

🗣️

spoken language

voice communication

linguistics

linguistic group

lingua

drake

lexis

lexicon

sayings

learning

programming language

informality

diction

Translations

Sprache

langue

👅

taal

langage

lengua

👅

lenguaje

linguaggio

lingua

👅

linguagem

idioma

γλώσσα

língua

👅

llenguatge

lingua

👅

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: langage

In summary

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.

Sentences

It was the pure Language of the World .

I have to find a man who knows that universal language .

When he speaks in our language , I can interpret what he has said .

In simple language it is an electronic version of the card catalogue .

It is widely used as a language of trade and commerce .

French serves as a statutory national language .