LANGUAGE

Language

Language is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics.

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language

Noun

  1. A form of communication using words either spoken or gestured with the hands and structured with grammar, often with a writing system.
  2. The ability to communicate using words.
  3. Nonverbal communication.
  4. A computer language.
  5. The vocabulary and usage used in a particular specialist field.
  6. The particular words used in speech or a passage of text.
  7. Profanity.
  8. Spoken or written words.

Verb

  1. To communicate by language; to express in language.
    Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. — Fuller.


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