bilingual

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: bi=lin=gual

CIDE DICTIONARY

bilingual, a. [L. bilinguis; bis twice + lingua tongue, language.].

 Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bilingual, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 able to speak two languages, esp. fluently.
2 spoken or written in two languages.
--n. a bilingual person.

Derivative

bilingualism n.

Etymology

L bilinguis (as BI-, lingua tongue)

ROGET THESAURUS

bilingual

Language

N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.