second languagenoun [ C ]
uk/ˌsek.ənd ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us/ˌsek.ənd ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/a language that a person can speak that is not the first language they learned naturally as a child:
German is my second language.
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- anglophone
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