MATERNAL LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maternal language mean? 

• MATERNAL LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun MATERNAL LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next

  Familiarity information: MATERNAL LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATERNAL LANGUAGE (noun)

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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 ("maternal 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)