Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BILINGUAL

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Definitions of BILINGUAL

1. Spoken or written in two different languages.
2. Characterized by the use or presence of two languages.
3. A person who is able to use two languages.
4. Having the ability to speak two languages fluently.

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Examples of Using BILINGUAL in a Sentence

• The Etruscans left around 13,000 inscriptions that have been found so far, only a small minority of which are of significant length; some bilingual inscriptions with texts also in Latin, Greek, or Phoenician; and a few dozen purported loanwords.
• Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series.
• The cantons of Freiburg, Bern, and Valais are officially bilingual; Grisons is officially trilingual.
• Although officially bilingual (English and French), the Yukon government recognizes First Nations languages.
• Born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingual family, Desclos began reading in French and English at an early age.
• Moreover, most Thais in the northern (Lanna) and the northeastern (Isan) parts of the country today are bilingual speakers of Central Thai and their respective regional dialects because Central Thai is the language of television, education, news reporting, and all forms of media.
• Beginning in the late 20th century, Aotearoa has become widespread in the bilingual naming of national organisations and institutions.
• The 2001 census found one heptalingual person, 13 pentalingual people, 35 quadrilingual people, 173 trilingual people, 881 bilingual people.
• Parker Brothers, who held the license to distribute Touring in the United States, acquired a license for Mille Bornes in 1962 and began publishing its version in America with updated cover art; inside, the game used the same bilingual cards from the 1960 Dujardin regular edition.
• The ultimate goal of bilingual education is fluency and literacy in both languages through a variety of strategies such as translanguaging and recasting.
• A synod of priests held at Memphis in 185 BC granted Cleopatra all the honours that had been given to Ptolemy V in 196 BC (inscribed on the bilingual Greek-Egyptian Rosetta Stone).
• In the Saint John Valley (northern Aroostook county), which borders Madawaska County, New Brunswick, many of the residents are bilingual in English and Acadian French.
• The Walloon Region and the French Community of Belgium, which is the political entity responsible for matters related mainly to culture and education, are independent concepts, because the French Community of Belgium encompasses both Wallonia and the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region but not the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
• He was the first bilingual element on the band, and he was part of the most iconic age of the band called "the golden age" next to Xavier Serbiá, René Farrait, Ricky Meléndez, Johnny Lozada, Charlie Massó and Ray Reyes, collaborating in making Menudo an international sensation, with LP albums like Fuego, Quiero Ser, Por Amor and Una Aventura Llamada Menudo.
• Major contributors to Russian literature, as well as English for instance, are authors of different ethnic origins, including bilingual writers, such as Kyrgyz novelist Chinghiz Aitmatov.
• Lawrence Township schools offer high ability programs, Advanced Placement (AP and ACP), International Baccalaureate Program, vocational and career education programs, and bilingual programs.
• The Greenville Saturday School (グリーンビル日本語補習授業校 Gurīnbiru Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō), a Japanese Saturday supplementary school, holds its classes at the French Bilingual School.
• 7 million people constitutes the largest bilingual and binational workforce in the Western Hemisphere.
• He also said that while he supported English as the common and unifying language of the United States, he believed that any attempt to make English the "official" national language would have a discriminatory effect against bilingual programs.
• It is a bilingual territory whose inhabitants speak both Spanish and the local co-official language Valencian.
• A bilingual pun is a pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language.
• Alief schools that serve Harris County areas in the Mission Bend CDP include Petrosky Elementary School (in the CDP), Miller Intermediate School (outside of the CDP) for non-bilingual and bilingual students, and Albright Middle School (inside the CDP).
• As part of the state reforms, the (bilingual) province of Brabant was split in 1995 three ways: into two (unilingual) provinces (Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant) and into the (bilingual) Brussels-Capital Region.
• School curricula were adapted in order to teach in Cimbrian, and bilingual street signs are being developed.
• His last two governments were plagued by linguistic troubles regarding the split of the old bilingual Catholic University of Leuven into a Dutch-language university (the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), which stayed in Leuven and a French-language university which moved to Louvain-la-Neuve and became the Université catholique de Louvain and the start of the process of changing Belgium from a unitary state into a federation with the creation of the Communities.

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