bilingual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin bilinguis + -al; equivalent to bi- + lingual.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: bi-lingual
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: bilinguals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bi-lingual
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: Having the ability to speak two languages fluently.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He thinks it's chic to have a bilingual wife.
Since she is bilingual she has them written in both English and Spanish.
Instead of nonnative speakers, we should be called bilingual or multilingual speakers.
gloss: Spoken or written in two different languages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Characterized by the use or presence of two languages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: A person who is able to use two languages.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An inscription that includes the same text in two languages.
pos: noun
Synonyms: two-tongued
Related words: biliterate
biscriptal
sesquilingual
Derived words: bilingual dictionary
bilingualism
bilinguality
bilingualize
bilingually
bilingualness
nonbilingual
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: tweetalig
lang: Albanian
word: dygjuhësh
lang: Arabic
word: ثُنَائِي اَللُّغَة
roman: ṯunāʔī l-luḡa
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܬܪܲܝܵܢܵܝ ܠܸܫܵܢܹ̈ܐ
roman: trayyānāy liššānē
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܬܪܲܝܵܢܵܝܲܬ ܠܸܫܵܢܹ̈ܐ
roman: trayyānāyat liššānē
lang: Armenian
word: երկլեզու
roman: erklezu
lang: Asturian
word: billingüe
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ikidilli
lang: Basque
word: elebidun
lang: Belarusian
word: двухмо́ўны
roman: dvuxmówny
lang: Belarusian
word: дзвюхмо́ўны
roman: dzvjuxmówny
lang: Bengali
word: দ্বিভাষিক
roman: dibhaśik
lang: Breton
word: divyezhek
lang: Bulgarian
word: двуезичен
roman: dvuezičen
lang: Catalan
word: bilingüe
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 雙語 /双语
roman: shuāngyǔ
lang: Czech
word: bilingvní
lang: Czech
word: dvojjazyčný
lang: Danish
word: tosproget
lang: Danish
word: tvesproget
lang: Dutch
word: tweetalig
lang: Esperanto
word: dulingva
lang: Estonian
word: kakskeelne
lang: Finnish
word: kaksikielinen
lang: French
word: bilingue
lang: Galician
word: bilingüe
lang: Georgian
word: ორენოვანი
roman: orenovani
lang: Georgian
word: ორენიანი
roman: oreniani
lang: German
word: zweisprachig
lang: German
word: bilingual
lang: Greek
word: δίγλωσσος
roman: díglossos
lang: Hebrew
word: דו־לשוני
lang: Hindi
word: द्विभाषी
roman: dvibhāṣī
lang: Hungarian
word: bilingvis
lang: Hungarian
word: kétnyelvű
lang: Icelandic
word: tvítyngdur
lang: Ido
word: bilingua
lang: Interlingua
word: bilingue
lang: Irish
word: dátheangach
lang: Italian
word: bilingue
lang: Japanese
word: バイリンガルの
roman: bairingaru no
lang: Khmer
word: ឧភយពាក្យ
roman: u’pʰea’yea’ piek
lang: Khmer
word: ពីរភាសា
roman: pii pʰiesaa
lang: Latin
word: bilinguis
lang: Macedonian
word: двоја́зичен
roman: dvojázičen
lang: Manx
word: daa-hengagh
lang: Māori
word: reorua
lang: Navajo
word: saad naaki yidiitsʼaʼ
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bilingv
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bilingval
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tospråklig
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: bilingv
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: bilingval
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tospråkleg
lang: Pashto
word: دوه ژبی
roman: dwa žëbay
lang: Persian
word: دوزبانه
lang: Polish
word: dwujęzyczny
lang: Polish
word: bilingwalny
lang: Portuguese
word: bilíngue
lang: Portuguese
word: bilingue
lang: Romanian
word: bilingv
lang: Russian
word: двуязы́чный
roman: dvujazýčnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dà-chànanach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dà-theangach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: двојѐзичан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: би̏лингва̄лан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dvojèzičan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bȉlingvālan
lang: Slovak
word: dvojjazyčný
lang: Spanish
word: bilingüe
lang: Swedish
word: tvåspråkig
lang: Tagalog
word: dalwika
lang: Thai
word: สองภาษา
lang: Tibetan
word: སྐད་གཉིས་སྨྲ་བ།
roman: skad gnyis smra ba
lang: Ukrainian
word: двомо́вний
roman: dvomóvnyj
lang: Vietnamese
word: song ngữ
lang: Welsh
word: dwyieithog
lang: Yiddish
word: צוויישפּראַכיק
roman: tsveyshprakhik