Definition of French-speaking

1. Adjective. Able to communicate in French.


Lexicographical Neighbors of French-speaking

Frei test
Freiberg's disease
Freiberg infraction
Freiburg
Frelimo
Fremantle
Fremantle Doctor
Fremont
Fremontia
Fremontodendron
French
French-Canadian
French-kiss
French-speaking (current term)
French Academy
French Bulldog
French Bulldogs
French Canada
French Canadian
French Canadians
French Congo
French Equatorial Africa
French Foreign Legion
French Guiana
French Guianese
French Guinea
French Guyana
French India

Literary usage of French-speaking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Education by Nova Scotia Dept. of Education (1908)
"They find that with startling uniformity and persistency attempts have been made and are being made to educate children from French-speaking homes and with ..."

2. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"This error, however, does not at all ; different from the French, speaking in disparage this very useful work, in which < singing tone, and looking quite ..."

3. Historical Philosophy in France and French Belgium and Switzerland by Robert Flint (1894)
"II French-speaking Switzerland is not, as some suppose, intel- ;t.-«.-tually a mere province of France. ..."

4. University Research Management: Meeting the Institutional Challenge by Helen Connell (2004)
"The French-speaking Universite Libre de Bruxelles - a particular case of Belgian University Belgium is a federal state with several components: the federal ..."

5. Modern Germany: Her Political and Economic Problems, Her Policy, Her by J. Ellis Barker (1905)
"As the French population is almost completely stationary in neighbouring France, it cannot be doubted that the great increase in the French- speaking ..."

6. Modern Germany: Her Political and Economic Problems, Her Foreign and by J. Ellis Barker (1907)
"Between 1888 and 1900, the French- speaking population of Switzerland increased by 15.5 per cent., the Italian population, largely through immigration, ..."

7. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"But the transfer of the English Crown to a French-speaking King, the partition of the highest offices and the greatest estates in England among his ..."

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