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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pidg•in /ˈpɪdʒən/USA pronunciation n. - Linguisticsa language that has developed from the need of speakers of two different languages to communicate and is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure: [countable]The traders spoke a pidgin when they did business across the border.[uncountable]Maybe if you speak pidgin you can make yourself understood.
adj. [before a noun] - of or relating to such a language:pidgin English.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pidg•in (pij′ən),USA pronunciation n. - Linguisticsan auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.
- Linguistics(loosely) any simplified or broken form of a language, esp. when used for communication between speakers of different languages.
- extracted from pidgin English 1875–80
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: pidgin /ˈpɪdʒɪn/ n - a language made up of elements of two or more other languages and used for contacts, esp trading contacts, between the speakers of other languages. Unlike creoles, pidgins do not constitute the mother tongue of any speech community
Etymology: 19th Century: perhaps from Chinese pronunciation of English business |