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Definitions for speech community

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

speech′ commu`nity(n.)

  1. the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.

    Category: Language/Linguistics

Origin of speech community:

1930–35

Princeton's WordNet

  1. speech community(noun)

    people sharing a given language or dialect

Wiktionary

  1. speech community(Noun)

    A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language

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