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say it: LANG-gwuhj
language is a noun meaning "a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
“he taught foreign languages”
“the language introduced is standard throughout the text”
“the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written”
(language) communication by word of mouth
“his speech was garbled”
“he uttered harsh language”
“he recorded the spoken language of the streets”
language
the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
“his compositions always started with the lyrics”
“he wrote both words and music”
“the song uses colloquial language”
the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
“he didn't have the language to express his feelings”
the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
“language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals”
a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
“legal terminology”
“biological nomenclature”
“the language of sociology”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for language come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.