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bilinguals

bilinguals is the plural 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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Questions about bilinguals

What is bilinguals the plural of?
Bilinguals is the plural of bilingual.

Words near bilinguals in the dictionary

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

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