lingua franca
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Italian lingua franca (literally “Frankish language”).
- borrowed from lingua franca
Definitions
A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another,…
A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.
- Taking these cues, I rewrote and rewrote the proposal couching my problem in the bland, euphemistic language that I was rapidly learning is the lingua franca of the corporate world.
Sabir, the Italian-based pidgin that served as a common language of Mediterranean trade…
Sabir, the Italian-based pidgin that served as a common language of Mediterranean trade around the 11th-19th centuries.
- ...tusheroon and its C.20 variant tossaroon (2s. 6d.) are manifest corruptions of Lingua Franca MADZA CAROON.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for lingua franca. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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