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bilingualist

bilingualist is the alternative form of bilingual.

Meaning of bilingual

Noun

bilingual (plural bilinguals)

  1. 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...2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 13
  2. An inscription that includes the same text in two languages.

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Forms of bilingualist

pluralbilingualists

Questions about bilingualist

What is bilingualist the alternative form of?
Bilingualist is the alternative form of bilingual.

Words near bilingualist in the dictionary

  1. bilingual
  2. bilingual dictionaries
  3. bilingual dictionary
  4. bilingualism
  5. bilingualisms
  6. bilingualist
  7. bilinguality
  8. bilingualization
  9. bilingualizations
  10. bilingualize
  11. bilingualized

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