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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("English language" is a kind of...):
West Germanic; West Germanic language (a branch of the Germanic languages)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "English language"):
American; American English; American language (the English language as used in the United States)
cockney (the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London)
geordie (the nonstandard dialect of natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
King's English; Queen's English (English as spoken by educated persons in southern England)
Received Pronunciation (the approved pronunciation of British English; originally based on the King's English as spoken at public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (and widely accepted elsewhere in Britain); until recently it was the pronunciation of English used in British broadcasting)
Middle English (English from about 1100 to 1450)
Modern English (English since about 1450)
Anglo-Saxon; Old English (English prior to about 1100)
Oxford English (the dialect of English spoken at Oxford University and regarded by many as affected and pretentious)
Scots; Scots English; Scottish (the language, languages or the dialect of English used in Scotland)
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