LANGUAGE

LANGUAGE.

–noun
1.	a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
2.	communication by voice in the distinctively human manner, using arbitrary sounds in conventional ways with conventional meanings; speech.
3.	the system of linguistic signs or symbols considered in the abstract (opposed to speech ).
4.	any set or system of such symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people, who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another.
5.	any system of formalized symbols, signs, sounds, gestures, or the like used or conceived as a means of communicating thought, emotion, etc.: the language of mathematics; sign language.
6.	the means of communication used by animals: the language of birds.
7.	communication of meaning in any way; medium that is expressive, significant, etc.: the language of flowers; the language of art.
8.	linguistics; the study of language.
9.	the speech or phraseology peculiar to a class, profession, etc.; lexis; jargon.
10.	a particular manner of verbal expression: flowery language.
11.	choice of words or style of writing; diction: the language of poetry.
12.	Computers. a set of characters and symbols and syntactic rules for their combination and use, by means of which a computer can be given directions: The language of many commercial application programs is COBOL.
13.	a nation or people considered in terms of their speech.
14.	Archaic. faculty or power of speech.




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