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homoglossic

homoglossic adjective: of, pertaining to, or exhibiting homoglossia.

Adjective

homoglossic (comparative more homoglossic, superlative most homoglossic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting homoglossia.
    • The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language...2007, Nick Bentley, “Re-writing Englishness: imagining the nation in Julian Barnes’s England, England and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”, in Textual Practice, volume 21, number 3, →DOI, pages 496–7

Antonyms of homoglossic

Forms of homoglossic

comparativemore homoglossic
superlativemost homoglossic

Origin of homoglossic

From homoglossia + -ic.

Questions about homoglossic

What does homoglossic mean?
Homoglossic means of, pertaining to, or exhibiting homoglossia.
What part of speech is homoglossic?
Homoglossic is an adjective.

Words near homoglossic in the dictionary

  1. homogentisate
  2. homogentisates
  3. homogentisic acid
  4. homogeny
  5. homoglossia
  6. homoglossic
  7. homoglot
  8. homoglots
  9. homoglucan
  10. homoglucans
  11. homoglutathione

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