Usually means: Common language facilitating communication globally.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word lingua franca:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. lingua franca: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lingua franca: Merriam-Webster
  3. lingua franca: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lingua franca: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lingua franca: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lingua franca: Vocabulary.com
  7. lingua franca: Wordnik
  8. lingua franca: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lingua Franca, lingua franca: Wiktionary
  10. lingua franca: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lingua franca: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lingua Franca, lingua franca: Dictionary.com
  13. lingua franca: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Lingua Franca (magazine), Lingua Franca, Lingua franca (disambiguation), Lingua franca: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lingua Franca: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lingua franca: Rhymezone
  17. Lingua Franca: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Lingua Franca: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. lingua franca: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lingua franca: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. lingua franca: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lingua-franca, lingua franca: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lingua franca: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lingua franca: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lingua_francas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Lingua Franca)

noun:  A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.
noun:  (historical, archaic) Sabir, the Italian-based pidgin that served as a common language of Mediterranean trade around the 11th-19th centuries.

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