Language Definition

lănggwĭj
languages
noun
languages
A system of vocal sounds and combinations of such sounds to which meaning is attributed, used for the expression or communication of thoughts and feelings.
Webster's New World
The written representation of such a system.
Webster's New World
Any means of expressing or communicating, as gestures, signs, or animal sounds.
Body language.
Webster's New World
Human speech.
Webster's New World
All the vocal sounds, words, and ways of combining them common to a particular nation, tribe, or other speech community.
The French language.
Webster's New World
idiom
speak the same (<i>or</i> someone's) language
  • to have the same beliefs, attitudes, etc. (as another)
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Other Word Forms of Language

Noun

Singular:
language
Plural:
languages

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Language

  • speak the same (or someone's) language

Origin of Language

  • Middle English 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”). Displaced native Middle English rearde, ȝerearde (“language”) (from Old English reord (“language, speech”)), Middle English londspreche, londspeche (“language”) (from Old English *landsprǣċ (“language, national tongue”), Old English þēod and þēodisc (“language”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French langage from langue tongue, language from Latin lingua dn̥ghū- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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