Definition of language

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Language (n.) The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation..

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Lingua Franca :: Lingua Franca () The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders..
Mealy-mouthed :: Mealy-mouthed (a.) Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
Linguistical :: Linguistical (a.) Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages..
Refine :: Refine (v. i.) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
Platitude :: Platitude (n.) The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language..
Hexapla :: Hexapla (sing.) A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century..
Ae :: Ae () A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon short ae was generally replaced by a, the long / by e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E..
Pundit :: Pundit (n.) A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official..
Romance :: Romance (a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
Proven/al :: Proven/al (n.) The Provencal language. See Langue d'oc.
Atticism :: Atticism (n.) The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression..
Aryan :: Aryan (n.) The language of the original Aryans.
Vulgarity :: Vulgarity (n.) Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.
Slavic :: Slavic (n.) The group of allied languages spoken by the Slavs.
Point-blank :: Point-blank (a.) Hence, direct; plain; unqualified; -- said of language; as, a point-blank assertion..
Thine :: Thine (pron. & a.) A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers..
Gaelic :: Gaelic (n.) The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic..
Synonyma :: Synonym (n.) One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous..
Analogue :: Analogue (n.) A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin pater is the analogue of the English father..
Testament :: Testament (n.) One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter..
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