ALL meanings of esperanto
- uncountable noun esperanto Esperanto is an invented language which consists of parts of several European languages, and which was designed to help people from different countries communicate with each other. 0
- noun esperanto an international artificial language based on words common to the chief European languages, invented in 1887 0
- noun esperanto an invented language, devised (1887) by Pol. physician L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), and proposed for use as an international (chiefly European) auxiliary language: it uses word bases common to the main European languages, and it has self-evident parts of speech (all nouns end in -o, all adjectives in -a, etc.), a single and regular conjugation of verbs, a few simplified inflections, etc. 0