Definition of "world-language" [world-language]

• A language used by or known to the civilized world. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Such a reading is based, first, on the supposed discrepancy between Wittgenstein's construction of a world-language system, which takes up the bulk of the"
• "The only vital consideration is the value of the output in the general terms of all races; and indeed all great folk-music, like any other kind, speaks, for those who have ears to hear, a world-language and not a dialect."
• "In the world-language of Barsoom she heard a man issuing instructions -- so many were to pick usa, so many were to irrigate this field, so many to cultivate that, and so on, as a foreman lay out the day's work for his crew."