Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- spoken, written, or containing similar information in two different languages: a bilingual dictionary; Public notices at the embassy are bilingual.
- of, involving, or using two languages: a bilingual community; bilingual schools.
noun
- a bilingual person.
adjective
- able to speak two languages, esp with fluency
- written or expressed in two languages
noun
- a bilingual person
1818, from bi- + lingual. Latin bilinguis meant literally “two-tongued,” and, figuratively, “speaking a jumble of languages,” also “double-tongued, hypocritical, false.”