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