"mutually intelligible" meaning in English

See mutually intelligible in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} mutually intelligible (not comparable)
  1. (linguistics) Of two or more speech varieties, able to be understood by one another's speakers. Wikipedia link: mutual intelligibility Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: interintelligible, intercomprehensible Related terms: mutual intelligibility Translations (of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety): 互通 (hùtōng) (Chinese Mandarin), vzájemně srozumitelný (Czech), keskinäisesti ymmärrettävä (Finnish), intercompréhensible (French), gegenseitig verständlich (German), wzajemnie zrozumiały (Polish), взаимопоня́тный (vzaimoponjátnyj) (Russian), mutuamente inteligible (Spanish)

Download JSON data for mutually intelligible meaning in English (3.5kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "mutually intelligible (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mutually unintelligible"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860, Alfred R. Wallace, Notes of a Voyage to New Guinea, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 30",
          "text": "This language, or mutually intelligible forms of it, is spoken by the coast-dwellers over an extensive area"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, F. W. H. Migeod, The Racial Elements Concerned in the First Siege of Troy, in Man, Vol. 17",
          "text": "Another important point is that Homer recognises that the speech of Trojans and Greeks was mutually intelligible."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of two or more speech varieties, able to be understood by one another's speakers."
      ],
      "id": "en-mutually_intelligible-en-adj-Bt6J6b8Y",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) Of two or more speech varieties, able to be understood by one another's speakers."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mutual intelligibility"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "interintelligible"
        },
        {
          "word": "intercomprehensible"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "hùtōng",
          "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
          "word": "互通"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
          "word": "vzájemně srozumitelný"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
          "word": "keskinäisesti ymmärrettävä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
          "word": "intercompréhensible"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
          "word": "gegenseitig verständlich"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
          "word": "wzajemnie zrozumiały"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vzaimoponjátnyj",
          "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
          "word": "взаимопоня́тный"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
          "word": "mutuamente inteligible"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "mutual intelligibility"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mutually intelligible"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "mutually intelligible (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mutual intelligibility"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mutually unintelligible"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English adverb-adjective phrases",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860, Alfred R. Wallace, Notes of a Voyage to New Guinea, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 30",
          "text": "This language, or mutually intelligible forms of it, is spoken by the coast-dwellers over an extensive area"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, F. W. H. Migeod, The Racial Elements Concerned in the First Siege of Troy, in Man, Vol. 17",
          "text": "Another important point is that Homer recognises that the speech of Trojans and Greeks was mutually intelligible."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of two or more speech varieties, able to be understood by one another's speakers."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) Of two or more speech varieties, able to be understood by one another's speakers."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "interintelligible"
        },
        {
          "word": "intercomprehensible"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "mutual intelligibility"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hùtōng",
      "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
      "word": "互通"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
      "word": "vzájemně srozumitelný"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
      "word": "keskinäisesti ymmärrettävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
      "word": "intercompréhensible"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
      "word": "gegenseitig verständlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
      "word": "wzajemnie zrozumiały"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vzaimoponjátnyj",
      "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
      "word": "взаимопоня́тный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety",
      "word": "mutuamente inteligible"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mutually intelligible"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.