language

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Synonyms: langrage, slanguage, languge, tonguage, langue, langauge, linguae, languages, langate, languaged, langure

Antonyms: langrage, slanguage, languge, tonguage, langue, langauge, linguae, languages, langate, languaged, langure

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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.
   • The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.
   • Deaf and mute people communicate using sign language.
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 specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
5. 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
6. A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
7. A computer language; a machine language.
8. A manner of expression.
9. The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
   • The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
   • The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
10. Profanity.

Verb

1. To communicate by language; to express in language.

Interjection

1. An admonishment said in response to someone using vulgar language during a conversation.

Noun

1. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

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