bilingual
noun
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L227496 on Wikidata ↗adjective
- Able to speak two different languages
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/ / /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡju.əl/
adj
Etymology: From Latin bilinguis + -al; equivalent to bi- + lingual.
- Having the ability to speak two languages fluently.
“He thinks it's chic to have a bilingual wife.”
“Since she is bilingual she has them written in both English and Spanish.”
- Spoken or written in two different languages.
“a bilingual dictionary”
“All signage in and around the station is bilingual in Welsh and English, while station announcements and passenger information screens provide real-time information.”
- Characterized by the use or presence of two languages.
“bilingual education”
“Ocasio-Cortez’s trolling went bilingual in November when a Fox News show, “The Story,” had a prime-time discussion about Ocasio-Cortez’s shoes, including an acknowledgment that the network spent a lot of time talking about a woman who had not even been sworn into Congress yet.”
noun
Etymology: From Latin bilinguis + -al; equivalent to bi- + lingual.
- 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 between the languages, and even across speakers).”
“Most striking, numerous studies have even shown that bilinguals undergo a later onset of dementia, perhaps of around four years, on average. But some of these studies have failed to replicate, leaving experts wondering whether the effect is real, and if so, what exactly it consists of.”
- An inscription that includes the same text in two languages.