Batavophone

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adjective

Dutch-speaking.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveBatavophone (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareDutch-speaking.

    My thesis... got a lot of praise from my advisor, who even wanted to see it published in the Batavophone Jesuits' scholarly quarterly.

    2009, Bruce Fraser, Ken Turner., Language in life and a life in language, Emerald Group Publishing, page 540
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    In addition, the translations, especially from Dutch, are not always felicitous, so that the Batavophone reader, to obtain comprehension, is often obliged to refer in his mind's eye to his and the authors' native words.

    1989, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana., Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 23, page 179

    Synonyms: Dutchophone, Netherlandophone

nounBatavophone (plural Batavophones)

plural Batavophones

  1. rareA Dutch speaker; a person who speaks the Dutch language.

    Synonyms: Dutchophone, Netherlandophone

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveDutch-speaking.

nounA Dutch speaker; a person who speaks the Dutch language.

Origin

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