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language

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of language

1 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

Synonyms of language

lingo, mother tongue, speech, tongue, vocabulary

Words Related to language

argot, cant, colloquial, dialect, idiolect, idiom, jargon, parlance, patois, patter, pidgin, slang, slanguage, vernacular

colloquialism, localism, provincialism, regionalism, shibboleth, vernacularism

coinage, modernism, neologism

2 the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field

"love" means "nothing" in the language of tennis

Synonyms of language

argot, cant, dialect, jargon, jive, lingo, patois, patter, shop, shoptalk, slang, terminology, vocabulary

Words Related to language

colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularism

bureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabble

3 the way in which something is put into words

we're finding the language of the legal documents to be tough going

Synonyms of language

diction, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage, wording

Words Related to language

expression, formulation, locution

enunciation, phrase, speech, style, utterance, voice

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