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non-native speaker

noun

Etymology

From non-native + speaker or non- + native speaker.

  1. derived from *sprekô✻ — “speaker”
  2. derived from speca
  3. inherited from speker
  4. compounded as non-native speaker — “non-native + speaker”

Definitions

  1. Someone who has another native tongue than the language being used.

    • Although double modality is outside the scope of Standard English and is not addressed in the school syllabus, it is a widespread phenomenon which non-native speakers of English might find confusing and should at least be aware of.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for non-native speaker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA