Franca

[frahn-kuh]

noun

1. a city in Sao Paulo state, SE Brazil.

Example Sentences

Somalia is to introduce Swahili, the lingua franca of East Africa, to its national curriculum, the president has announced.

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At a time when a perpetual spray of furious outrage has become our lingua franca and even the president drops F-bombs, Bargatze’s humor is mild, clean and inward-facing.

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It’s not a matter of if but when: I live in a majority Latino city, near a Latino supermarket on a street where the lingua franca is Spanish.

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Sport was the exception to the rule that all things American were the world’s cultural lingua franca.

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His 21 minutes and 40 seconds of control time, meanwhile, was the second most in a UFC bout after Sean Sherk recorded 22 minutes and 18 seconds against Hermes Franca in 2007.

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