Associations to the word «Esperanto»

Pictures for the word «Esperanto»

Wiktionary

ESPERANTO, proper noun. An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof with a base vocabulary inspired by Indo-European languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, and having a streamlined grammar with completely regular conjugations, declensions, and inflections.
ESPERANTO, proper noun. (figuratively) Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.

Dictionary definition

ESPERANTO, noun. An artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languages.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne