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FIRST LANGUAGE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does first language mean?

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

1. one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next

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

Dictionary entry details

• FIRST LANGUAGE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

One's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

first language; maternal language; mother tongue

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

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

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