Language Quote by Anonymous

“the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

— Roy Blount, Jr

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a…

— John Ayto

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community…

— Noam Chomsky

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes…

— Virgilia Peterson

Words take on many different meanings.

— Erin McKean

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus:…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

— William Safire

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus:…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

— N. Scott Momaday

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change

— Antonin Scalia

First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that…

— James Joyce