Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun koine

2 senses of koine

Sense 1
Koine -- (a Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire)
       => Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language -- (the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages)

Sense 2
lingua franca, interlanguage, koine -- (a common language used by speakers of different languages; "Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times")
       => language, linguistic communication -- (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written")