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    LINGUA FRANCA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: linguae francae  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A common language used by speakers of different languagesplay

    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

    Synonyms:

    interlanguage; koine; lingua franca

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    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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