language
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- noun
- /ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
- In which language should I tell you?
- English language
- a foreign language
- a second language
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Watch on YouTubeHe seems to learn or know their language quite easily.
- He seems to learn or know their language quite easily.
- You're seeing Spanish language films, Indian films.
- Wanting to work in France without learning the language, I'd say bold.
- Can you say anything in any language I can say?
- How has your experience with Asia, Asian languages, philosophies influenced?
- You see the world through a lens, and your language forms that lens of belief.
- And So what does language have to do with that?
- See it's just language, language travel, my God.
- And so it's just our own little private language hookups.
- She was teaching her her third language with her second language.
Examples
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You have to teach me the language sometime.
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Can you say anything in any language I can say?
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I think that a common language helps in our house.
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For the language in which the people speak is the language in which they also write.
Academic text (2011) -
Do you speak other languages?
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Well, see that school has improved your language.
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Rhythm probably plays a central role in language acquisition and effective communication in general.
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They need better funding for their language lab.
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We don't speak the same language.
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Many people around the world speak different languages to communicate with each other.
Synonyms
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4.4
A spoken or written language used by a group of people
5
3.5
A system people use to speak and write to each other rather than computer code
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8.2
A language people use to communicate across different groups
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4.2
All the sounds, words, and rules used in a language
Idioms
Compounds
100
1.0
A language spoken in the UK, the US, and many countries and used worldwide for communication
78
2.7
The way a person moves their face, hands, and body to show feelings without words
36
2.8
A language using hand signs and face movements to communicate, often used by people who are deaf
19
9.9
A language spoken by the Sámi people in northern Scandinavia and northwest Russia
- Specialized
15
3.9
A set of rules for writing instructions a computer can follow
- Specialized
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3.5
A system people use to speak and write to each other rather than computer code
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2.3
Learning to understand, speak, read, and write a language that is not your first
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3.4
English that people speak and write in the United States with different words and sounds
3
3.9
A language of hand signs and body movements used by deaf people in the United States and parts of Canada
- Specialized
3
4.9
A way to write small computer programs that run by themselves to do tasks
2
4.6
A language first used by ancient Jewish people, now the main language of Israel
- Specialized
2
4.6
A set of simple tags that tell a computer how to show or arrange text
- Archaic
2
5.8
A language spoken by the native people of North, Central, or South America
- Specialized
2
5.5
A type of computer language that is easy for people to read and write
- Specialized
1
5.8
A programming language made of 0s and 1s that a computer runs directly
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2.7
A language spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil and in some African and Asian countries
1
2.7
The language spoken in North and South Korea and by people from Korea around the world
- Specialized
1
5.3
The way computers understand and work with human language
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9.2
A language from the Middle East once spoken by ancient Arameans and still used by some people
1
6.0
A language that comes from a large family that includes English, Spanish, Hindi, and Russian
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2.3
Work where people help others learn to speak and understand another language
- Specialized
1
8.1
A computer language that tells a computer's hardware what to do and works for one kind of computer
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5.1
A language spoken by Kurdish people in parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria
1
9.5
A language spoken in parts of Spain and France by the Basque people that is not related to other languages
1
3.0
The official national language of the Philippines based on Tagalog and using words from other local languages
1
9.9
A language used in Coptic church services in Egypt and Ethiopia, written with Greek letters
- Literature
1
7.9
Words that make people feel strong emotions to change what they think
- Specialized
1
8.1
A language that a translator or program creates from another language
- Specialized
1
6.5
A part of the left side of the brain that helps people speak and understand words
- Specialized
1
7.2
A language made by people for a special use, like computers or international communication
- Specialized
1
8.4
A language like Turkish or Uzbek that people speak in Central Asia and nearby regions
1
4.6
A language that people speak mainly in Albania and in nearby Balkan countries
1
4.7
A language similar to Spanish and French spoken in Catalonia, Andorra, and nearby parts of Spain, France, and Italy
- Texting
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4.1
A set of simple rules that tell a browser how to show web pages
How Widely Spoken
Surface Forms
Etymology
Language comes from the Latin word lingua, which means 'tongue'. Because 'tongue' also meant the way a group speaks, language came to mean the set of words and rules a community uses, like a 'mother tongue'.