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lingua franca

 
Noun lingua franca has 1 sense
  1. lingua franca, interlanguage, koine - 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"
    --1 is a kind of language, linguistic communication
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