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Meaning of "nonspeaker" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NONSPEAKER

nonspeaker  [ˌnɒnˈspiːkə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NONSPEAKER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nonspeaker is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NONSPEAKER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nonspeaker in the English dictionary

The first definition of nonspeaker in the dictionary is a person who cannot speak, a mute. Other definition of nonspeaker is a person who does not speak, especially an actor; a mime artist, or an actor in a play with no speaking part. Nonspeaker is also a person who does not speak a given language e.g. a nonspeaker of French.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NONSPEAKER


Arica
əˈriːkə
beaker
ˈbiːkə
bibliotheca
ˌbɪblɪəʊˈθiːkə
chica
ˈtʃiːkə
Dominica
ˌdɒmɪˈniːkə
doublespeaker
ˈdʌbəlˌspiːkə
eureka
jʊˈriːkə
Gernika
ɡɜːˈniːkə
Guernica
ɡɜːˈniːkə
jobseeker
ˈdʒɒbsiːkə
loudspeaker
ˌlaʊdˈspiːkə
oiticica
ˌɔɪtɪˈsiːkə
seeker
ˈsiːkə
sika
ˈsiːkə
sneaker
ˈsniːkə
speaker
ˈspiːkə
sunseeker
ˈsʌnˌsiːkə
tika
ˈtiːkə
tikka
ˈtiːkə
Topeka
təˈpiːkə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NONSPEAKER

nonsmoking
nonsocial
nonsocialist
nonsolar
nonsolid
nonsolution
nonsolvent
nonspatial
nonspeaking
nonspecialist
nonspecific
nonspecific urethritis
nonspecifically
nonspectacular
nonspecular
nonspecular reflection
nonspeculative
nonspeech
nonspherical
nonsporting

WORDS THAT END LIKE NONSPEAKER

backbreaker
ballbreaker
breaker
circuit breaker
contact breaker
dealbreaker
English speaker
German speaker
heartbreaker
icebreaker
jailbreaker
keynote speaker
lawbreaker
maker
native speaker
phreaker
public speaker
squeaker
streaker
tie-breaker
Windbreaker

Synonyms and antonyms of nonspeaker in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nonspeaker» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NONSPEAKER

Find out the translation of nonspeaker to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nonspeaker from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nonspeaker» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

nonspeaker
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nonspeaker
570 millions of speakers

English

nonspeaker
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nonspeaker
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nonspeaker
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

nonspeaker
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nonspeaker
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nonspeaker
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nonspeaker
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nonspeaker
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nonspeaker
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

nonspeaker
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nonspeaker
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nonspeaker
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nonspeaker
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nonspeaker
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उत्तरप्रेषक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nonspeaker
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nonspeaker
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nonspeaker
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

nonspeaker
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nonspeaker
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nonspeaker
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nonspeaker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nonspeaker
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nonspeaker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nonspeaker

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NONSPEAKER»

The term «nonspeaker» is barely ever used and occupies the 207.631 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NONSPEAKER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nonspeaker» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nonspeaker» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nonspeaker

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONSPEAKER»

Discover the use of nonspeaker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nonspeaker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Linguistic Semantics
lower that of the nonspeaker. On the contrary, languages do have ameliorative ( elevating) and pejorative (derogating) markers. But the more common tack is to bring about rank differential by showing deference on the part of the speaker (2) ...
William Frawley, 2013
2
Spain After Franco: The Making of a Competitive Party System
... 41 42 Preference 1C2 1 4 2 1SUC 2 is 1 Partisan Total regional parties 1 18 A Total regional parties 1 13 2 11 42 27 15 C4 1 8 2 EE 1 1 4 21 2 4 1 H2 21 19 14 21A 12 1 1 2uskadia Aative speaker Aative nonspeaker Immigrant nonspeaker ...
Richard Gunther, Giacomo Sani, Goldie Shabad, 1986
3
Mental Dynamics: Power Thinking for Personal Success
by the other listeners. Thus, the nonspeaker will be required to participate in the discussion. Another way to snare the nonspeaker is to make a remark, preferably a somewhat controversial one, that hits her right in her area of competence.
K. Thomas Finley, 1990
4
Studies in the organization of conversational interaction
While in two-party conversation, a current nonspeaker can pass any given transition-relevance place that is nonobligatory (i.e., where "current selects next" technique has not been used) with full assurance of being "next speaker" at some  ...
Jim Schenkein, 1978
5
Speaking Mexicano: Dynamics of Syncretic Language in Central ...
The validity of the claim of a nonspeaker, however, requires stronger support. Purism is an attempt to provide a more rigorous test for membership. However, by questioning ways of speaking which are hundreds of years old in the Malinche ...
Jane H. Hill, Kenneth C. Hill, 1986
6
Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects
(26) OJ demonstratives speaker nonspeaker interrogative ko so i- N iduWe believe on the basis of comparative Ryukuan evidence that the pJ shape of the interrogative was *e-, and we have mentioned above evidence for an earlier proximal ...
Bjarke Frellesvig, John Whitman, 2008
7
School Psychology for the 21st Century, Second Edition: ...
Language proficiency has typically been measured on a continuum from nonspeaker of a language to fluent speaker (Yansen & Shulman, 1996). According to Yansen and Shulman (1996), language proficiency can be classified under five ...
Kenneth W. Merrell, Ruth A. Ervin, Gretchen Gimpel Peacock, 2011
8
Handbook of Communication and People With Disabilities: ...
Distinct from the concept of lipreading, nonspeaking laryngectomees have expressed frustration about interactants who are fully conscious of a person's disability but will often greet the nonspeaker by asking, “How are you?” They will then ...
Dawn O. Braithwaite, Teresa L. Thompson, 1999
9
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 58 - ...
If a nonspeaker of Chinese is put in a room in which there are meaningless squiggles and instructed that, when told that when someone says "I like blue," he should put out of the room "squiggle, squiggle, squiggle," the fact that, according to a ...
Allen Kent, 1996
10
Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed ...
When the available bandwidth is sufficient for the transmission of the speaker and at least one nonspeaker (13 fps), after 75 seconds, the speaker frame rate is set to 10 fps and one nonspeaker is sent with 3 fps. The other nonspeakers are ...
Fernando Boavida, Edmundo Monteiro, Joao Orvalho, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NONSPEAKER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nonspeaker is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Seattle Writer Doug Nufer's Lifeline Rule Is a Dazzling, Disorienting …
... to the pleasures of Oulipo—the thrill and beauty of hearing the music of your own language as a nonspeaker does, of seeing language used ... «TheStranger.com, May 15»
2
Lindsay Lohan Called You an Ass
Above the words "You're beautiful" is Arabic text which a nonspeaker would assume was a translation. However, it is not. According to Arabic ... «Yahoo Celebrity UK, Apr 15»
3
Oscars 2015: Julianne Moore is a quiet miracle
Assessing the acting in a decades-old daytime soap is like attempting to analyze a Noh theatre performance as a nonspeaker of ancient ... «National Post, Feb 15»
4
Navajo Presidential Race Shaken By Language Gap
If I support a nonspeaker, I feel like I'm voting against my own work." Others feel that they can support their language and Deschene's ... «North Country Public Radio, Oct 14»
5
Chemical Co. Can't Ax Rival's Defamation Suit In Texas Court
... related to, or in response to the exercise of the rights to petition and of association that could be imputed to a nonspeaker, those rights would ... «Law360, Apr 14»
6
Watch The Hot Spots For Pharma Self-Regulation
There are five types of service agreements: consulting; advisory; speaker; nonspeaker research; and other. The substance of the mandated ... «Law360, Jul 13»
7
Penobscot Nation, UMaine win grants to help revive tribe's language
James Francis, director of cultural and historic preservation for the tribe, is a second-generation nonspeaker, meaning his grandmother didn't ... «Bangor Daily News, Jul 13»
8
7 Signs You're An Ugly American
American tourists are notorious for just repeating English questions louder when a nonspeaker doesn't understand, so don't do that. Try to use ... «Huffington Post, Oct 12»
9
Kyocera releases smartphones for easy listening
Its Kyocera Urbano Progresso model, for example, is a nonspeaker phone that uses the bones in a person's head instead of speaker to deliver ... «Phys.Org, May 12»
10
Impatient Futurist: Good News, Spock—We're Getting Closer to a …
... a visit to France, whose vaguely humanoid populace turns Klingon when confronted by a nonspeaker of their primitive but pretty language. «Discover Magazine, Feb 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Nonspeaker [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/nonspeaker>. May 2024 ».
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