speech community

Noun

Meaning

people sharing a given language or dialect

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

commonwealth people public community culture society race nation folk dialect nationality populace constituency idiom inhabitant
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Antonyms

private quality elite pink aristocracy dignity
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Hypernyms

community

Examples

All languages change as speakers adopt or invent new ways of speaking and pass them on to other members of their speech community. Source: Internet

But if a Pidgin language becomes the main language of a speech community, then eventually children will grow up learning the pidgin as their first language. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

speech bubble speech by one person speech communication speech day speech defect speech defects