language

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

To communicate by language; to express in language.

Intj

An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.

Hyphenated as

lan‧guage

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

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

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

Colotenango is traditionally a Maya community whose residents speak the Mayan Mam language .