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FIRST LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
Synonyms:
first language; maternal language; mother tongue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("first language" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)