lingua franca

英 [ˌlɪŋɡwə'fræŋkə] 美 [ˌlɪŋɡwə'fræŋkə]

• 通用语

英英释义

Noun:

1. a common language used by speakers of different languages;

   "Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times"
   

经典引文

• Ric and Rac could not understand the words, but they knew..the lingua franca of gallantry.

  出自： K. A. Porter

近反义词

【近义词】

• interlanguage 中间语言
• koine 以阿提喀方言为主的希腊共...