LINGUA FRANCA (linguae francae)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A common language used by speakers of different languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

interlanguage; koine; lingua franca

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)