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SPEECH COMMUNITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speech community mean? 

SPEECH COMMUNITY (noun)
  The noun SPEECH COMMUNITY has 1 sense:

1. people sharing a given language or dialectplay

  Familiarity information: SPEECH COMMUNITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPEECH COMMUNITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

People sharing a given language or dialect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("speech community" is a kind of...):

community (a group of people living in a particular local area)


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