Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective able to communicate in English.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective able to communicate in English
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Examples
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“Good Lord” is an expression we English-speaking Westerners use sometimes in disgust, irritation, astonishment, and disbelief.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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“Good Lord” is an expression we English-speaking Westerners use sometimes in disgust, irritation, astonishment, and disbelief.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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“Good Lord” is an expression we English-speaking Westerners use sometimes in disgust, irritation, astonishment, and disbelief.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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“Good Lord” is an expression we English-speaking Westerners use sometimes in disgust, irritation, astonishment, and disbelief.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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In the years just after the founding of the United Nations in 1945, when speeches from the lectern of the General Assembly and the Security Council were widely broadcast beyond the earphones of the diplomats on the floor, Mr. Sherry became known as the English-speaking voice of Andrei Y.
NYT > Home Page By DENNIS HEVESI 2011
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Nowadays, free speaks to customers not only in a regional or national market, or even in a random troop of tourists from an English-speaking country, as may have been the case not long ago, but rather in a wider English-speaking world.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Happily too, because the availability of the word shlog freed it up to become recent slang for, to put it politely, “slogging through sewage” and “school blog,” uses that some English-speaking teenagers appear to find indispensable.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The first major English-speaking spheres were trade and militarized colonial expansion, but the impetus has been increasingly commercial, and increasingly sparked by made-in-the-USA technology.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Ross reported that southern Italian immigrant children, “with the dusk of Saracenic or Berber ancestors showing in their cheeks, are twice as apt to drop behind other pupils of their age as are the children of the non–English-speaking immigrants from northern Europe.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Had the Normans integrated the English-speaking peasantry into their way of life and language, they might well have turned England into a French-speaking island even to this day.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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