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bilingually en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English bilingual Middle English -ly English -ly English bilingually From bilingual + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a bilingual manner; using two languages.
    • Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little. 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 147: