language universal
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of language universal
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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Understand you!—Oui da! you talk de language universal.
From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by Burgoyne, John
No adequate effort is being made to render the English language universal throughout its limits, none at all to use it as a medium of thought and enlightenment.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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