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Esperantist

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[es-per-ahnt-ist, -ant-ist] / ˌɛs pərˈɑnt ɪst, -ˈænt ɪst /

noun

  1. a person who is skilled or fluent in Esperanto or who promotes its use as a lingua franca.


adjective

  1. promoting the use of Esperanto as a lingua franca.

Example Sentences

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Schor, trading improvisations with another Esperantist, comes up with elmuri—“to take something out of a wall”—for getting cash from an A.T.M.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2016

Schor quotes the Spanish Esperantist Jorge Camacho: “Esperanto continues to give me something . . . which I don’t find anywhere else, an irrational sense of directly belonging to the world.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2016

In 1966, Argentine Esperantist Rubén Feldman González founded what’s now Pasporta Servo, a free, Esperanto-speaking Airbnb with more than 1,000 hosts across 90 countries, including Pakistan, Iran, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2016

He was so bored during his service that he learned Esperanto – he was an active Esperantist for the rest of his life.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2012

The incident is amusingly told in Esperanto by M. Boirac, Rector of Dijon University and a noted Esperantist, who was amongst the French professors.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

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