WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
speech′ commu′nity, [Ling.]
- Linguisticsthe aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
- Linguisticsa group of people geographically distributed so that there is no break in intelligibility from place to place.
- 1930–35
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