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- Practice the English pronunciation of false friend with real speech in context.
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- Definition summary
- (linguistics, translation studies, lexicography) A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics, translation studies, lexicography) A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false, friend.
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