bilingual
Collocations
5(adj.)
VERBS
be | become
ADV
fully | virtually
PREP
in
My grandmother became bilingual in English and Italian after moving to the United States as a teenager.
Definitions
adj
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
A person who is able to use two languages.
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.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a person who speaks two languages fluently
- bilingualist
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6He thinks it's chic to have a bilingual wife.
WiktionarySince she is bilingual she has them written in both English and Spanish.
WiktionaryInstead of nonnative speakers, we should be called bilingual or multilingual speakers.
WiktionaryMost 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
WiktionaryWith an American father and a French mother, she is bilingual.
Tatoeba · #67482We created a freely available English-Japanese bilingual corpus.
Tatoeba · #329151