bilingualism
nounEtymology From bilingual + -ism.
1
The condition of being bilingual; the ability to speak two languages.
- At Kingsbridge, the bilingualism of the Irish Republic was evident in the tickets, the station notices, and the neat destination boards on the 10.40 a.m. express to Cork.1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 297:
- Related terms
- monolingualism, multilingualism, plurilingualism, quadrilingualism, quinquelingualism, semilingualism, septilingualism, sesquilingualism, sexilingualism, translingualism, trilingualism, unilingualism