languages

/L AE1 NG G W AH0 JH AH0 Z/
noun
  1. 1

    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.

    โ€œDeaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.โ€

  2. 2

    The ability to communicate using words.

    โ€œthe gift of languageโ€

  3. 3

    A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.

    โ€œlegal language; ย  the language of chemistryโ€

  4. 4

    The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.

    โ€œbody language; ย  the language of the eyesโ€

  5. 5

    A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.

  6. 6

    A computer language; a machine language.

  7. 7

    Manner of expression.

  8. 8

    The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.

    โ€œThe language he used to talk to me was obscene.โ€

  9. 9

    Profanity.

verb
  1. 1

    To communicate by language; to express in language.

noun
  1. 1

    A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/language, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/languages