language
IPA: ɫˈæŋgwʌdʒ
noun
- (countable) 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.
- (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
- (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- (countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
- (uncountable) Manner of expression.
- (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- (uncountable) Profanity.
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
verb
- (rare, now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.
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Examples of "language" in Sentences
- Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language.
- None of the three know the language of the country.
- Do you understand the nuances of the English language
- Choice of words and purity of language is exhilarating.
- The word Bastard and Basta exist in the English language.
- The cognate word in the Hawaiian language culture is kapu.
- The abbreviation LUS is the word for louse in the Danish language.
- Each bulletin is in the language and format of the country of origin.
- Understanding the link between bilingual aphasia and language control.
- The origin of the word atoll itself is in the language of the Maldives.
- Cool, but the last sentence sorry this is just a language understanding error, what do you mean by it. * english isnt my first language* lol.
- O.K. try to use "lrelease $$language; \" with NO option (neither - compress nor - nocompress) in the language Makefile and it will probably work.
- Yet, the Esperanto movement believes that tourists can truly have cross-cultural experiences when they speak only a foreign, constructed language and give no attention to the local language
- The Immigration Restriction Act (federal) provided that an immigrant, on demand, must demonstrate ability to pass a test in a European language (changed in 1905 to a prescribed language to spare Japanese susceptibilities).
- In truth, however, it was _not language that generated the intellect; it is the intellect that formerly invented language: and even now the new-born human being brings with him into the world far more intellect than talent for language_.
- The fact that they had but one language furnishes reasonable proof that they were of one blood; and the historian has covered the whole question very carefully by recording the great truth that they were _one people_, and had but _one language_.
- Of course it was not only in Latin that he wished to make pupils think of it as a "spoken language," for Mr. Darbishire tells us that "one of his special endeavours was to accustom his students to deal with Greek _as a spoken language_" [Footnote: It will be remembered that Francis Newman introduced the "new" pronunciation of Latin.] (as, for instance) "in reading Greek plays."