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lingua franca
Overview of noun lingua-franca
The noun lingua franca has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. lingua franca, interlanguage, koine -- (a common language used by speakers of different languages; "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")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lingua-franca
1 sense of lingua franca
Sense 1
lingua franca, interlanguage, koine
=> language, linguistic communication
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun lingua-franca
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lingua-franca
1 sense of lingua franca
Sense 1
lingua franca, interlanguage, koine
=> language, linguistic communication
Antonyms of noun lingua-franca
Member Holonyms of noun lingua-franca
Substance Holonyms of noun lingua-franca
Part Holonyms of noun lingua-franca
Member Meronyms of noun lingua-franca
Substance Meronyms of noun lingua-franca
Part Meronyms of noun lingua-franca
Meronyms of noun lingua-franca
Holonyms of noun lingua-franca
Attributes of noun lingua-franca
Derived Forms of noun lingua-franca
Domain of noun lingua-franca
Domain Terms of noun lingua-franca
Familiarity of noun lingua-franca
lingua franca used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun lingua-franca
1 sense of lingua franca
Sense 1
lingua franca, interlanguage, koine
> language, linguistic communication
=> dead language
=> words
=> source language
=> object language, target language
=> sign language, signing
=> artificial language
=> metalanguage
=> native language
=> indigenous language
=> superstrate, superstratum
=> natural language, tongue
=> lingua franca, interlanguage, koine
=> string of words, word string, linguistic string
=> barrage, bombardment, outpouring, onslaught
=> slanguage
Meronyms of noun lingua-franca
1 sense of lingua franca
Holonyms of noun lingua-franca
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