Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tongue or tonguelike organ.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tongue; a tongue.
- noun A language.
- noun Hence— Any hybrid tongue used similarly in other parts of the world; an international dialect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tongue.
- noun A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A
tongue . - noun zoology A
median process of thelabium , at the underside of themouth ininsects , and serving as a tongue.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The Italian medieval poet Dante was the first to have recorded the term lingua d'oc.
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The Italian medieval poet Dante was the first to have recorded the term lingua d'oc.
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Hoc cognoscentes, ponebant custodiam ori suo, ut non delinquerent in lingua sua; ideoque concaluit cor earum intra eas, et 'in meditacione earum exarsit ignis (Ps. XXXVIII, 4) ille Dominus Deus noster, consumens omnem rubiginem uiciorum.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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If you do have bad breath and you believe the culprit is a dark or hairy tongue, you could have condition known as lingua villosa nigra.
Dr. Harold Katz: Bad Breath and Your Tongue Dr. Harold Katz 2011
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If you do have bad breath and you believe the culprit is a dark or hairy tongue, you could have condition known as lingua villosa nigra.
Dr. Harold Katz: Bad Breath and Your Tongue Dr. Harold Katz 2011
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If you do have bad breath and you believe the culprit is a dark or hairy tongue, you could have condition known as lingua villosa nigra.
Dr. Harold Katz: Bad Breath and Your Tongue Dr. Harold Katz 2011
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If you do have bad breath and you believe the culprit is a dark or hairy tongue, you could have condition known as lingua villosa nigra.
Dr. Harold Katz: Bad Breath and Your Tongue Dr. Harold Katz 2011
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While he leans decidedly toward the descriptivist camp, he believes experts ought to acknowledge the public's need for guidance on how to speak and write standard English -- that is, the lingua franca of official, public and commercial life in the English-speaking world.
Salon 2009
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Whatever audience they target, they speak a lingua franca of anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-American hatred racists such as al-Mansour constitute a significant proportion of these hate mongers?
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Whatever audience they target, they speak a lingua franca of anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-American hatred-all in the name of Allah.
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