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.
Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.
The ability to communicate using words.
the gift of language
A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
legal language; the language of chemistry
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
A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
A computer language; a machine language.
Manner of expression.
The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
Profanity.
To communicate by language; to express in language.
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.