lingua franca

1. 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”

   Synonymsinterlanguagekoine

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Questions about lingua franca

What does lingua franca mean?

lingua franca means "a common language used by speakers of different languages".

What is another word for lingua franca?

Close synonyms include interlanguage, koine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.