language

noun · verb · interjectionB1

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noun

Plural noun:

languages

1.
(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.
The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.
Deaf and mute people communicate using sign language.
2.
(uncountable)The ability to communicate using words.
the gift of language
3.
(uncountable)A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
legal language; the language of chemistry
4.
(uncountable)The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
5.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(countable, uncountable, figurative) 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.
(countable, uncountable)A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
7.
(countable)(computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
8.
(uncountable)A manner of expression.
9.
(uncountable)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.
(euphemistic, uncountable)Profanity.
11.
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

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verb

V_es/s

languages

V_ing/Gerund

languaging

V_ed/pp

languaged

1.
(nonstandard, rare)(rare, now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.

interjection

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

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computer languagemachine languageprogramming language

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (tongue, speech, language), from dingua (tongue), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (tongue, speech, language). langaj. Displaced native ġeþēode.