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
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He says his team at Explosive Media consists of fewer than ten people who use Lego-style graphics "because it is a world language".
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
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
But most Washington school districts don’t begin offering world language courses until students reach upper grades.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
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
There is a real Volapük for you—a world language which all can understand, for it is onomatopoetic realism.
From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck
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