LINGUA FRANCA (linguae francae)
Dictionary entry overview: What does lingua franca mean? • LINGUA FRANCA (noun)
The noun LINGUA FRANCA has 1 sense:
1. a common language used by speakers of different languages
Familiarity information: LINGUA FRANCA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LINGUA FRANCA (noun)
Meaning:
A common language used by speakers of different languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
interlanguage; lingua franca; koine
Context example:
Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times
Hypernyms ("lingua franca" is a kind of...):
language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)
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