speak in tongues

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   speak unintelligibly in or as if in religious ecstasy

   “The parishioners spoke in tongues”

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Questions about speak in tongues

What does speak in tongues mean?

speak in tongues means "speak unintelligibly in or as if in religious ecstasy".

Is speak in tongues a common word?

speak in tongues is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.