<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.</li><li>communication by voice in the distinctively human manner, using arbitrary sounds in conventional ways with conventional meanings; speech.</li><li>the system of linguistic signs or symbols considered in the abstract (speech).</li><li>any set or system of such symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people, who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another.</li><li>synonyms: lingua franca, lingo, terminology, tongue.</li><li>any system of formalized symbols, signs, sounds, gestures, or the like used or conceived as a means of communicating thought, emotion, etc.: the language of mathematics; sign language.</li><li>the means of communication used by animals: the language of birds.</li><li>communication of meaning in any way; medium that is expressive, significant, etc.: the language of flowers; the language of art.</li><li>linguistics; the study of language.</li><li>the speech or phraseology peculiar to a class, profession, etc.; lexis; jargon.</li><li>synonyms: lingua franca, lingo, terminology, tongue.</li><li>a particular manner of verbal expression: flowery language.</li><li>choice of words or style of writing; diction: the language of poetry.</li><li>computers: a set of characters and symbols and syntactic rules for their combination and use, by means of which a computer can be given directions: The language of many commercial application programs is COBOL.</li><li>a nation or people considered in terms of their speech.</li><li>archaic: faculty or power of speech.</li></ul>