MOTHER TONGUE meaning: Native language learned from birth

We found 21 dictionaries that define the word mother tongue:

General (19 matching dictionaries)

mother tongue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mother tongue: Merriam-Webster
mother tongue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
mother tongue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
mother tongue: Collins English Dictionary
mother tongue: Vocabulary.com
mother-tongue, mother tongue: Wordnik
mother tongue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
mother-tongue, mother tongue: Wiktionary
mother tongue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
mother tongue: Infoplease Dictionary
mother tongue: Dictionary.com
Mother Tongue (journal), Mother-tongue, Mother tongue (disambiguation), Mother tongue, The Mother Tongue (book), The Mother Tongue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
mother tongue: Rhymezone
mother tongue: FreeDictionary.org
mother tongue: Mnemonic Dictionary
mother tongue: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Mother-tongue: Glossary of Translation and Interpreting Terminology

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

The Mother Tongue: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mother tongue)

▸ noun:  The language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language.
▸ noun:  The language spoken by one’s ancestors.
▸ noun:  The language spoken by one's mother, when it differs from that spoken by one's father.
▸ noun:  Informal speech, as opposed to educated language.

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English, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, more...

Phrases:

mother in laws tongue, The Mother Tongue, more...

Adjectives:

ausbau, heteroclite, heteronomous, mutually intelligible, nomic, a posteriori, substrate, variationist, prestige, standard, flash

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