bilingual

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 agree on rough translations of morphemes and words (although their usages would be potentially different between the languages, and even across speakers).
  2. An inscription that includes the same text in two languages.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having the ability to speak two languages fluently. not-comparable
    — He thinks it's chic to have a bilingual wife.
  2. Spoken or written in two different languages. not-comparable
    — a bilingual dictionary
  3. Characterized by the use or presence of two languages. not-comparable
    — bilingual education

词形变化

bi-lingual alternative,rare bilinguals plural bi-lingual alternative,rare

词汇关系

近义词
two-tongued
衍生词
bilingual dictionary bilingualism bilinguality bilingualize bilingually bilingualness nonbilingual
相关词
biliterate biscriptal sesquilingual

词源

词源 1
From Latin bilinguis + -al; equivalent to bi- + lingual.
词源 2
From Latin bilinguis + -al; equivalent to bi- + lingual.
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