language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written"

sentence - a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"

syntagm, syntagma - a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit

string - a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)