language

Definitions

• (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.
• (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
• (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
• (countable) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
• (countable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
• (computing) A computer language; a machine language.
• (uncountable) Manner of expression.
• (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
• (uncountable) Profanity.