languages
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.
“Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.”
- 2
The ability to communicate using words.
“the gift of language”
- 3
A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
“legal language; the language of chemistry”
- 4
The 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
A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
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A computer language; a machine language.
- 7
Manner of expression.
- 8
The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
“The language he used to talk to me was obscene.”
- 9
Profanity.
verb
- 1
To communicate by language; to express in language.
noun
- 1
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
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