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Batavophone

Batavophone adjective: dutch-speaking.

Adjective

Batavophone (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Dutch-speaking.
    • In addition, the translations, especially from Dutch, are not always felicitous, so that the Batavophone reader, to obtain comprehension, is often obliged to refer in his mind's eye to his and the authors' native words.1989, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana., Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 23, page 179
    • My thesis... got a lot of praise from my advisor, who even wanted to see it published in the Batavophone Jesuits' scholarly quarterly.2009, Bruce Fraser, Ken Turner., Language in life and a life in language, Emerald Group Publishing, page 540

Noun

Batavophone (plural Batavophones)

  1. (rare) A Dutch speaker; a person who speaks the Dutch language.

Synonyms of Batavophone

Forms of Batavophone

pluralBatavophones

Origin of Batavophone

From Batavo- + -phone.

Questions about Batavophone

What does Batavophone mean?
Batavophone means dutch-speaking.
What part of speech is Batavophone?
Batavophone can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Batavophone in the dictionary

  1. Batavians
  2. batavias
  3. Batavism
  4. Batavisms
  5. Batavo-
  6. Batavophone
  7. Batavophones
  8. Batayan
  9. Bataysk
  10. batboy
  11. batboys

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