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bilingually

bilingually adverb: in a bilingual manner; using two languages.

Adverb

bilingually (not comparable)

  1. In a bilingual manner; using two languages.
    • Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings...

Origin of bilingually

From bilingual + -ly.

Questions about bilingually

What does bilingually mean?
Bilingually means in a bilingual manner; using two languages.
What part of speech is bilingually?
Bilingually is an adverb.

Words near bilingually in the dictionary

  1. bilingualizations
  2. bilingualize
  3. bilingualized
  4. bilingualizes
  5. bilingualizing
  6. bilingually
  7. bilingualness
  8. bilinguals
  9. bilinguar
  10. bilinguis
  11. bilinguist

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