lingua franca
通用语,通用语言,法语,社交语言
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Definitions
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plural lingua francas, lin·guae fran·cae [ling-gwee -fran-see]. /ˈlɪŋ gwi ˈfræn si/.
- : any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
- : the Italian-Provençal jargon formerly widely used in eastern Mediterranean ports.
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Examples
There the lingua franca is Cajun French, and folks love to fiddle, dance and most of all, eat.
Attendees included members of Italian fashion royalty, such as Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani.
Koch backed the death penalty, wasn't above a little Archie Bunker-ish lingua franca to get his point across.
Second, will it continue to be a widely used lingua franca, possibly even increase its influence?
Long gone seamen and traders made Italian its lingua franca.
Having said this, the Moor asked several questions—through the negro, and always in the Lingua Franca.
He spoke in Lingua Franca, which Foster understood pretty well by that time.
In course of time, Arabic replaced the Aramean dialect, and became the lingua franca of the Jews.
What was coming in was uniformly excited, some panicky, and all in fairly standard Lingua Terra.
Csar sibi fecit nostram confessionem reddi Italica et Gallica lingua.