natural language

Noun

Meaning

a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

tongue language vernacular Austronesian mother tongue lingua ural-altaic native language native tongue mother language linguistic communication written language ordinary language normal language natural speech
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Antonyms

artificial language machine language foreign language second language constructed language conlang
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Hypernyms

language linguistic communication

Hyponyms

indian creole basque caucasian indo-european dravidian

Examples

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. Lydia Maria Child

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species. Don DeLillo

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. Thomas Shadwell

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive. Larry Wall

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google. Ray Kurzweil

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. Ray Kurzweil

Close letter words and terms

natural killer natural killer cell natural lab natural language interface natural language processing natural language processing application