fluent

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At the sign of the Green Man in the village he was known as a fluent orator and keen political debater.

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  1. adjective Able to express oneself readily and effortlessly: a fluent speaker; fluent in three languages.
  2. adjective Flowing effortlessly; polished: speaks fluent Russian; gave a fluent performance of the sonata.
  3. adjective Flowing or moving smoothly; graceful: a yacht with long, fluent curves.

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  • How fluent is their language as they tell out the freeness of salvation! —  CAMPONTHIS
  • The West Brom side of the 1953-54 season became known for their brand of fluent, attacking football and were hailed as the "team of the century" and The Daily Mirror went as far as to suggest that the team be chosen en masse to represent England at the 1954 World Cup finals.
  • Add Leonardo DiCaprio, as a fluent-in-Arabic CIA operative in a scraggly beard - this makes it easier for him to pass himself off as an official resident of the Middle East, when necessary - and you've got a movie that works so hard to be politically topical and morally relevant that you might be fooled into thinking it actually means something. —  Salon
  • This duty was performed by the prelate in smooth, fluent, and well-turned common-places, being replied to by Jacob Mass, member of the Council of Brabant, much in the same style. —  The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham
  • His Spanish is still fluent--but he found himself strangely fascinated when the first computers showed up at the Training Center. —  The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier
 

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lucid ·  witty ·  eloquent ·  concise ·  persuasive ·  voluble ·  apt ·  forceful ·  truthful ·  agreeable ·  plausible ·  intelligible
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin fluēns, fluent-, present participle of fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin fluen(t-)s, present participle of fluere, past participle fluxus, flow, = Greek φλύειν, swell, overflow, ἀνα-φλύειν, spout up. Not related to English flow. Hence ult. (from Latin fluere) English fluid, flux, fluctuate, etc., flotsam, flume, affluent, effluent, influent, refluent, etc.
 

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