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BASIC ENGLISH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication; devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Basic English" is a kind of...):
artificial language (a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose)