mother tongue
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nounDefinition of MOTHER TONGUE
1
: one's native language
2
: a language from which another language derives
See Examples of MOTHER TONGUE
- <although the anthropologist could speak the local language fairly well, she was always glad to find someone who shared her mother tongue>
First Known Use of MOTHER TONGUE
14th century
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