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1 a: the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community b
(1): audible, articulate, meaningful sound as produced by the action of the vocal organs
(2): a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings
(3): the suggestion by objects, actions, or conditions of associated ideas or feelings <language in their very gesture
— Shakespeare>
(4): the means by which animals communicate
(5): a formal system of signs and symbols (as FORTRAN or a calculus in logic) including rules for the formation and transformation of admissible expressions
(6): machine language 12 a: form or manner of verbal expression
; specifically : style b: the vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or a department of knowledge c: profanity3: the study of language especially as a school subject4: specific words especially in a law or regulation
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