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lan·guage
 language
- pronunciation:
- laeng
gwihj
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
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noun |
| definition 1: |
the system of spoken or written words with which people communicate thoughts, ideas, or feelings.
Language is a way of sharing our ideas with one another.- similar words:
- communication, vocabulary
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| definition 2: |
a particular system used by people of the same nation, region, or group to communicate with one another.
The English language is hard for some people to learn.- synonyms:
- tongue
- similar words:
- dialect, idiom, speech
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| definition 3: |
a way to communicate without using words.
Her body language says she is tired.- synonyms:
- communication
- similar words:
- code, gesture, speech
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Language comes from lingua, a Latin word that means "the tongue."
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broader category including language |
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communication, culture |
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expressed through language |
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emotion, feeling, idea, knowledge, thought |
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similar to language |
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speech, tongue |
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some actions involving language |
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babble, chatter, communicate, decipher, decode, gesture, gossip, interpret, mumble, mutter, program, sign, speak, swear, taunt, translate |
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some body parts that produce language |
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larynx, lips, lungs, mouth, nose, throat, tongue, vocal cords |
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some examples of language |
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American English, Apache, Arabic, BASIC, Cajun, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Middle English, Mongol, Norwegian, Old English, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa |
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some forms of language |
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formal, informal, spoken, written |
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some kinds of written language |
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alphabet, code, hieroglyphic, shorthand |
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some parts of language |
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accent, consonant, dialect, figure of speech, gesture, grammar, idiom, jargon, pronunciation, sign, slang, sound, vocabulary, vowel, word |
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some people associated with language |
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speaker, translator |
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