Definition of "bilingual" []

• Using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency. (adjective)
• Using two languages in some proportion in order to facilitate learning by students who have a native proficiency in one language and are acquiring proficiency in the other: bilingual training; bilingual education. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or expressed in two languages: a bilingual dictionary. (adjective)
• A person who uses or is able to use two languages, especially with equal fluency. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term bilingual education ought to mean teaching people to become bilingual, but like many other liberal terms, it means the opposite of what it seems to say."
• "The term bilingual education ought to mean teaching people to become"
• "Indiana School for the Deaf, which was founded more than 165 years ago and promotes what it calls a bilingual, bicultural philosophy that includes American Sign Language and English."