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ENGLISH-SPEAKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does English-speaking mean?
• ENGLISH-SPEAKING (adjective)
The adjective ENGLISH-SPEAKING has 1 sense:
1. able to communicate in English
Familiarity information: ENGLISH-SPEAKING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ENGLISH-SPEAKING (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Able to communicate in English
Similar:
communicative; communicatory (able or tending to communicate)
Context examples
I have spoken of our English-speaking half-breed, Gomez—a fine worker and a willing fellow, but afflicted, I fancy, with the vice of curiosity, which is common enough among such men.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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