world language
Britishnoun
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a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
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an artificial language for international use, such as Esperanto
Example Sentences
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In the United States, there is still no national standard for learning a world language, which is vastly different from how second languages are taught in some other countries.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026
Among the cuts are one-third of the education department faculty and the entire world language department.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023
Foremost Nigerian author Chinua Achebe put it best when he said: "The price a world language must be prepared to make is submission to different kinds of use."
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2023
Because illiteracy tends to correlate with lack of schooling and thus the inability to speak a common world language, speech technology is not available to those who need it the most.
From Scientific American • Feb. 1, 2021
She thought of it as the preferred world language because it was nonsense to her.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
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