Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency.
- adj. Using two languages in some proportion in order to facilitate learning by students who have a native proficiency in one language and are acquiring proficiency in the other: bilingual training; bilingual education.
- adj. Of, relating to, or expressed in two languages: a bilingual dictionary.
- n. A person who uses or is able to use two languages, especially with equal fluency.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Containing or expressed in two languages; recorded in two versions of different language.
- Speaking two languages or a mixture of two.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having the ability to speak two languages.
- adj. Spoken or written in two different languages:
- n. A person who is bilingual.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. using or knowing two languages
- n. a person who speaks two languages fluently
Examples
“The term bilingual education ought to mean teaching people to become bilingual, but like many other liberal terms, it means the opposite of what it seems to say.”
“The term bilingual education ought to mean teaching people to become”
“Indiana School for the Deaf, which was founded more than 165 years ago and promotes what it calls a bilingual, bicultural philosophy that includes American Sign Language and English.”
“Mitch Daniels, a Republican, filled four empty slots on the board of the Indiana School for the Deaf, which was founded more than 165 years ago and promotes what it calls a bilingual, bicultural philosophy that includes American Sign Language and English.”
“Venezuela also provides specialized education for the deaf population, and in this video, school staff explain how they go around teaching deaf children who may also suffer from cognitive deficiencies in what they call a bilingual environment.”
“The fact that I am bilingual is something I am extremely proud of.”
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“The Department of Curriculum as good as Instruction offers undergraduate programs streamer to initial training certificates as good as connoisseur programs in bilingual education, curriculum as good as instruction, facile education, denunciation preparation as good as delegate”
“The diagram illustrates how the aid of theories provided by monolingual studies was used to investigate reading development in bilingual settings.”
“More specifically, the terms bilingual and trilingual are used to describe comparable situations in which two or three languages are involved.”
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“Others are lost gradually in bilingual cultures, as indigenous tongues are overwhelmed by the dominant language at school, in the marketplace and on television.”
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bi-
two; twice; every two; lasting two
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lingui-, linguo
language
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