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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
Sense 1
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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