Synonyms of languages

languages

noun

plural of language

1

as in tongues

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 & Similar Words

• tongues
• vocabularies
• dialects
• idioms
• terminologies
• speeches
• mother tongues
• vernaculars
• lingos
• slangs
• idiolects
• pidgins
• colloquialisms
• localisms
• argots
• jargons
• patois
• vernacularisms
• regionalisms
• cants
• provincialisms
• neologisms
• colloquials
• coinages
• modernisms
• acrolects
• slanguages
• parlances
• patter
• shibboleths

2

as in dialects

the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dialects
• terminologies
• vocabularies
• slangs
• idioms
• argots
• jargons
• patois
• lingos
• cants
• vernaculars
• shops
• shoptalk
• patter
• jives
• localisms
• regionalisms
• vernacularisms
• colloquialisms
• pidgins
• speeches
• provincialisms
• colloquials
• parlances
• slanguages
• educationeses
• bureaucrateses
• computereses
• technobabbles
• journaleses
• governmenteses
• cyberspeaks

3

as in dictions

the way in which something is put into words

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dictions
• formulations
• wordings
• phrasings
• expressions
• voices
• phraseologies
• phrases
• verbiages
• styles
• speeches
• locutions
• enunciations
• utterances

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of languages

The expansion will also introduce new catalogs in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and more, with more than 120 languages in total. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026

Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership. — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026

Its library runs to upward of 300,000 hours of programming in 19 languages. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

Voice of America, one of six entities that fall under the purview of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), is a digital, web, and mobile media outlet that broadcasts news to over 361 million people globally in 49 languages. — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

High school foreign language teachers should be shifted to younger grades to immerse these younger children in foreign languages as the Europeans do. — Doug Wojcieszak, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026

The platform as a whole is now capable of serving tourists from hundreds of different nationalities, is available in 14 languages, and can manage over 140 types of travel documents. — Matthew Kayser, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026

Speaking at the event, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni urged traditional leaders to promote local languages. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Machines can summarize information, translate languages, generate code, analyze data and assist with complex tasks. — Ayush Gupta, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026