ALL meanings of lingua franca
lin·gua Fran·ca
L l - noun lingua franca shared language 1
- noun plural lingua franca any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages. 1
- noun plural lingua franca (initial capital letter) the Italian-Provençal jargon (with elements of Spanish, French, Greek, Arabic, and Turkish) formerly widely used in eastern Mediterranean ports. 1
- noun lingua franca a common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar. 0
- singular noun lingua franca A lingua franca is a language or way of communicating which is used between people who do not speak one another's native language. 0
- noun lingua franca a language used for communication among people of different mother tongues 0
- noun lingua franca a hybrid language containing elements from several different languages used in this way 0
- noun lingua franca any system of communication providing mutual understanding 0
- noun lingua franca a particular lingua franca spoken from the time of the Crusades to the 18th century in the ports of the Mediterranean, based on Italian, Spanish, French, Arabic, Greek, and Turkish 0
- noun lingua franca a hybrid language based on Italian, with Spanish, French, Greek, and Arabic elements, spoken, esp. formerly, in certain Mediterranean ports 0
- noun lingua franca a language used for communication between different peoples, as English or Swahili; specif., a hybrid language used for this purpose, as pidgin English 0
- noun lingua franca something that is like a common language 0