Esperanto
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Esperanto
1890–95; originally pseudonym of inventor; literally, the hoping one. See esperance
Example Sentences
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Within a single page Mr. Hahn can hop from Esperanto to Turkish to Hindi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
You can find traces of it in the world-conquering Esperanto of computer coding and in the algorithms behind artificial intelligence.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Today, Esperanto may seem like little more than a colorful historical oddity.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
That last tweet originally gave the defense secretary's last name as "Esperanto," sparking no end of humor on social media.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2019
Dad’s theories ranged from Esperanto, which he made us study because he thought it was the answer to half the world’s problems, to immaculate conception, which he said wasn’t supported by available biological evidence.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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