language

About 163.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.

2. noun The ability to communicate using words.

   the gift of language

3. noun A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.

   legal language; the language of chemistry

4. noun The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
5. noun 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. noun A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
7. noun A computer language; a machine language.
8. noun A manner of expression.

Similar words

speech nomenclature terminology lyric words linguistic communication linguistic process oral communication spoken language langue

Often followed by

of and is in to that as was which

Word family

language barrier language barriers languages watch her language watch his language watch my language watch one's language watch our language watch their language watch your language