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equilingual

equilingual adjective: able to speak two or more languages at the same level of proficiency.

Adjective

equilingual (not comparable)

  1. Able to speak two or more languages at the same level of proficiency.

Noun

equilingual (plural equilinguals)

  1. A person who is equilingual.
    • Unilinguals and bilinguals other than equilinguals mostly consume mass media products in the language they know best.1979, Alain Desrochers, Richard Clément, The Social Psychology of Inter-ethnic Contact and Cross-cultural Communication, An Annotated Bibliography, page 59
    • If the equilingual speaks language A or B, the monolingual speakers of that language would recognize that the individual is a speaker of another language.1998, Hortense García Ramirez Kayser, Assessment and Intervention Resource for Hispanic Children, page 33

Forms of equilingual

pluralequilinguals

Origin of equilingual

From equi- + lingual.

Words formed from equilingual

Words that rhyme with equilingual

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Questions about equilingual

What does equilingual mean?
Equilingual means able to speak two or more languages at the same level of proficiency.
What part of speech is equilingual?
Equilingual can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near equilingual in the dictionary

  1. equilibriums
  2. equilibrize
  3. equilibrizes
  4. equilibrizing
  5. equilin
  6. equilingual
  7. equilingualism
  8. equilingualisms
  9. equilinguals
  10. equilisation
  11. equilobate

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