Definition/Meaning of language

• English - Noun: language (countable and uncountable, plural languages) (countable) A body of word s, 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 sign language . The English and German language s are both members of the West Germanic language family. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using…
• English - Verb: language (third-person singular simple present languages, present participle languaging, simple past and past participle languaged) (nonstandard, rare) To communicate by language; to express in language. 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI): Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a…
• English - Interjection: language An admonishment said in response to someone using vulgar language during a conversation.
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English langage , language , from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“ tongue , speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj . Displaced Old English ġeþēode . Mostly, but not fully, displaced native English tongue, in this specific sense, in…
• English - Pronunciation: (Australia, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/ (British, Northern England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales) IPA: /ˈlaŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/ (US) IPA: /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/ , /ˈleɪŋ-/ IPA: /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/ , [ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ] , /ˈleɪŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/ , [ˈleɪ̯ŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ] ~ [ˈleːŋ-] (Southern US) IPA: /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/ , [ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ] ~ [ˈlæə̯ŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ] ~ [ˈlɛə̯ŋ-] (Inland Northern American) IPA: /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/ , [ˈlɛə̯ŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ]…