ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does English language mean? 

• ENGLISH LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun ENGLISH LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries

  Familiarity information: ENGLISH LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENGLISH LANGUAGE (noun)

Meaning:

An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

English; English language

Hypernyms ("English language" is a kind of...):

West Germanic; West Germanic language (a branch of the Germanic languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "English language"):

American; American English; American language (the English language as used in the United States)

cockney (the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London)

geordie (the nonstandard dialect of natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

King's English (standard English as spoken in southern England)

Middle English (English from about 1100 to 1450)

Modern English (English since about 1450)

Anglo-Saxon; Old English (English prior to about 1100)

Oxford English (the dialect of English spoken at Oxford University and regarded by many as affected and pretentious)

Scots; Scots English; Scottish (the dialect of English used in Scotland)