foreign language
/fɔːɹɪn lɛŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/
foreign language noun: a language that is not widely or officially spoken in a particular place.
Noun
foreign language (plural foreign languages)
- A language that is not widely or officially spoken in a particular place.
- Irish courts will hear cases in English or Gaelic, but speakers of foreign languages must find an interpreter.
- A language that is not one's native tongue.
- The children struggled in their Welsh lessons because they didn't have any experience of foreign languages.
foreign language meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
foreign language in Hindi
- any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place
- विदेशी भाषा videśī bhāṣā
foreign language in Tamil
- any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place
- அயல்மொழி ayalmoḻi, வேற்றுமொழி vēṟṟumoḻi
foreign language in Urdu
- any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place
- پَرْدیسی زَبان pardesī zubān, غیر مُلْکی زَبان ġair mulki zubān, بِدیسی زَبان bidesī zubān
foreign language in Malayalam
- foreign language
- അന്യഭാഷ anyabhāṣa
More languagesFewer languages
- foreign language in Arabic
- لُغَة أَجْنَبِيَّة luḡa ʔajnabiyya
- foreign language in Malay
- bahasa asing
- foreign language in Indonesian
- bahasa asing
- foreign language in Persian
- زبان خارجی zabân-e xâreji
- foreign language in Thai
- ภาษาต่างประเทศ paa-sǎa-dtàang-bprà-têet
- foreign language in Vietnamese
- ngoại ngữ
- foreign language in Myanmar
- ဘာသာခြား bhasahkra:, ဘာသန္တရ bhasanta.ra.
Forms of foreign language
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Questions about foreign language
- What does foreign language mean?
- Foreign language means a language that is not widely or officially spoken in a particular place.
- What is foreign language in Hindi?
- Foreign language in Hindi is विदेशी भाषा (videśī bhāṣā). See Foreign language meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is foreign language?
- Foreign language is a noun.
- How do you pronounce foreign language?
- Foreign language is pronounced /fɔːɹɪn lɛŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/ (US).
- What is the plural of foreign language?
- The plural of foreign language is foreign languages.
Words near foreign language in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: foreign language (page history and authors); അന്യഭാഷ (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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