language
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪd͡ʒ/ noun A1- 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. · The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.· Deaf and mute people communicate using sign language.
- The ability to communicate using words. · the gift of language
- A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field. · legal language; the language of chemistry
- The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
- The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does. · body language; the language of the eyes
- A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A computer language; a machine language.
- A manner of expression.
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More than a year had been consumed in this undertaking, the only tools for which had been a chisel, a knife, and a wooden lever; Faria still continuing to instruct Dantès by conversing with him, sometimes in one language, sometimes in another; at others, relating to him the history of nations and great men who from time to time have risen to fame and trodden the path of glory.
The greatest martinet in the Army in his day, and it was a day of rough language, too.
These rolls consisted of slips of cloth about four inches wide and eighteen long; they were all carefully numbered and closely covered with writing, so legible that Dantès could easily read it, as well as make out the sense—it being in Italian, a language he, as a Provençal, perfectly understood.
I used the most pathetic language I could think of and said ‘thou’ and ‘thee.’ ‘Thou’ and ‘thee’ seem so much more romantic than ‘you.’ Diana gave me a lock of her hair and I’m going to sew it up in a little bag and wear it around my neck all my life.
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