bilingual means having the ability to speak two languages fluently. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 74 out of 100.
bilingual is pronounced /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/.
Etymology
From Latin bilinguis + -al; equivalent to bi- + lingual.
adj
- Having the ability to speak two languages fluently.“He thinks it's chic to have a bilingual wife.”
- Spoken or written in two different languages.“a bilingual dictionary”
- Characterized by the use or presence of two languages.“bilingual education”
noun
- A person who is able to use two languages.“Imagine that you had to figure out the lexicon and grammar of a language that you did not know. How would you go about trying to figure out the structure of that language? It would be enormously helpful to have a bilingual speaker of your language and the new language: With a bilingual, you can agree on rough translations of morphemes and words (although their usages would be potentially different”
- An inscription that includes the same text in two languages.