Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The habitual colloquial use of two languages by the same person in different relations.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Quality of being bilingual.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The condition of being bilingual; the ability to speak two languages.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the ability to speak two languages colloquially

Etymologies

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bilingual +‎ -ism

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