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PIDGIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pidgin" is a kind of...):
artificial language (a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pidgin"):
Chinook Jargon; Oregon Jargon (a pidgin incorporating Chinook and French and English words; formerly used as a lingua franca in northwestern North America)
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