lingua
the tongue or a part like a tongue.
Origin of lingua
1Words Nearby lingua
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How to use lingua in a sentence
There the lingua franca is Cajun French, and folks love to fiddle, dance and most of all, eat.
Koch backed the death penalty, wasn't above a little Archie Bunker-ish lingua franca to get his point across.
Second, will it continue to be a widely used lingua franca, possibly even increase its influence?
Long gone seamen and traders made Italian its lingua franca.
She nods to me and greets her friends in Sesotho, the lingua franca among black South Africans in this mostly-poor region.
Having said this, the Moor asked several questions—through the negro, and always in the lingua Franca.
The Middy and the Moors | R.M. BallantyneHe spoke in lingua Franca, which Foster understood pretty well by that time.
The Middy and the Moors | R.M. BallantyneIn course of time, Arabic replaced the Aramean dialect, and became the lingua franca of the Jews.
Chapters on Jewish Literature | Israel AbrahamsWhat was coming in was uniformly excited, some panicky, and all in fairly standard lingua Terra.
Space Viking | Henry Beam PiperCsar sibi fecit nostram confessionem reddi Italica et Gallica lingua.
History of the Great Reformation, Volume IV | J. H. Merle D'Aubign
British Dictionary definitions for lingua
/ (ˈlɪŋɡwə) /
Origin of lingua
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