lingua
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gwə
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World English Dictionary
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| —n , pl -guae | |
| 1. | the technical name for tongue |
| 2. | any tongue-like structure |
| [C17: Latin] | |
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Lingua
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
lingua lin·gua (lĭng'gwə)
n. pl. lin·guae (-gwē')
The tongue.
A tonguelike anatomical structure.
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Example sentences
Actors are different, but we've certainly developed a lingua franca.
Villagers typically are multilingual or speak a lingua franca that enables them to trade or marry into a neighboring clan.
Memoirs about language-learning reflect the fear of a world flattened by the new lingua franca.
Rock and pop have moved into the mainstream, edging out movie and show tunes as the world's musical lingua franca.
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