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PIDGIN

Dictionary entry overview: What does pidgin mean?

• PIDGIN (noun)
The noun PIDGIN has 1 sense:

1. an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages

Familiarity information: PIDGIN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PIDGIN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pidgin" is a kind of...):

artificial language (a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pidgin"):

Chinook Jargon; Oregon Jargon (a pidgin incorporating Chinook and French and English words; formerly used as a lingua franca in northwestern North America)

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