Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The process of acquiring the faculty of speech.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Broader terms: language acquisition
noun
The activity of learning one or several foreign languages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
learning to use a language
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: learning, acquisition
Narrower terms: audio lingual acquisition
History
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Across languages
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
