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bilingual

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

bi=lin=gual

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun bilingual has 1 sense

bilingual(n = noun.person) bilingualist - a person who speaks two languages fluently; Array

is a kind of linguist, polyglot

Derived form adjective bilingual₁

Adjective bilingual has 1 sense

bilingual(s = adj.all) Array - using or knowing two languages; "bilingual education"

Derived form noun bilingual₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

bilingual, a. [L. bilinguis; bis twice + lingua tongue, language.].

Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

bilingual, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 able to speak two languages, esp. fluently.
2 spoken or written in two languages.
--n. a bilingual person.

Derivative

bilingualism n.

Etymology

L bilinguis (as BI-, lingua tongue)

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ROGET THESAURUS

bilingual

Language

N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.

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