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the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication<Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and other countries where English is the dominant language>Synonymslingo, mother tongue, speech, tongue, vocabularyRelated Wordsargot, cant, dialect, idiom, jargon, parlance, patois, patter, pidgin, slang, vernacular; colloquialism, localism, regionalism; terminology
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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field<“love” means “nothing” in the language of tennis>— see terminology
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the way in which something is put into words<finding the language of the legal documents to be difficult to understand>— see wording
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