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interlingualism

interlingualism noun: the status of not being associated to or confined to one language.

Noun

interlingualism (countable and uncountable, plural interlingualisms)

  1. (uncountable) The status of not being associated to or confined to one language.
    • Taxonomic names are great examples of interlingualism.
    • This article explores the issue of bilingualism and proposes interlingualism as a concept which would refer to and include the numerous variables for people who know, use, and interact between two languages and/or among three or more.2014 February 5, Frank Deiby Giraldo Aristizábal, “Interlingualism: Beyond bilingualism and onto the knowledge and use of languages”, in Postscript, Medium
  2. (countable) A word, phrase or lexeme which is commonly found either in multiple languages or not limited to a single language.

Forms of interlingualism

pluralinterlingualisms

Origin of interlingualism

From interlingual (“between or across languages”) + -ism (abstract-noun suffix).

Questions about interlingualism

What does interlingualism mean?
Interlingualism means the status of not being associated to or confined to one language.
What part of speech is interlingualism?
Interlingualism is a noun.
What is the plural of interlingualism?
The plural of interlingualism is interlingualisms.

Words near interlingualism in the dictionary

  1. interliners
  2. interlines
  3. interlingua
  4. interlingual
  5. interlingual machine translation
  6. interlingualism
  7. interlingually
  8. interlinguas
  9. Interlingue
  10. interlinguist
  11. interlinguistic

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