first language

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

the language that you learn to speak first as a child; the language that you speak best: His first language is Welsh. compareSECONDLANGUAGE

Rate this entry

About this entry

This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

first languageEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary first languageEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

Nearby in the dictionary

first cousin first degree first-degree first edition first-ever first finger first floor first-foot first fruit first generation first-hand

Frequently asked questions

Where does this definition of first language come from?

This entry for first language is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.

Is first language a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, first language is tagged as noun.

Does first language appear elsewhere on Lughet?

Yes — first language appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.

What is Lughet?

Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.

first language