language

nouncountable and uncountableA1UK /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/ US /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/

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.
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.
The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.figuratively
A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
A computer language; a machine language.
A manner of expression.
The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
Profanity.euphemistic
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

Forms

Example sentences6514 results

It would be so cool if I could speak ten languages!

Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.