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nonspeaker

noun

Etymology

From non- + speaker.

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

Definitions

  1. One who cannot speak

    One who cannot speak; a mute.

  2. One who does not speak a particular language or dialect.

    • Many visitors to France are nonspeakers of French.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonspeaker. 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