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fluentflu‧ent /ˈfluːənt/ ●●○ adjective   fluentOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin present participle of fluere ‘to flow’ - Ann speaks fluent Italian.
- Applicants should be fluent in Cantonese.
- Johansson is a fluent and expressive fiddler.
- He had earlier spent several years in the Middle East and spoke fluent Arabic.
- It also opened a concierge desk selling tickets to area events and hired a tour coordinator fluent in five languages.
- Previous evidence has shown that fluent braille involves a number of subsidiary perceptual, cognitive and manual skills.
- Speech is usually fluent and grammatical, sometimes with occasional mispronunciations of individual speech sounds and sometimes with word-finding difficulties.
- Therese's voice, in a theatre, was even bigger, more fluent and lyrical than he had hoped.
- They have played some fluent football to date and their finishing has been clinical.
to speak a language► speak · Nadia speaks six languages.speak French/Japanese/Russian etc · Is there anyone here who can speak Arabic? ► know to be able to speak, read, and understand some of a particular foreign language: · I know enough Italian to travel around there.· Do you know any Polish? ► fluent very good at speaking a foreign language, so that you can speak it quickly without stopping and you understand it very well: fluent in English/German/Thai etc: · Applicants should be fluent in Cantonese.fluent French/Arabic/Japanese etc: · Ann speaks fluent Italian. ► bilingual able to speak two languages very well: · About 80 percent of the school's students are bilingual. ► multilingual able to speak several languages very well: · Many people who work at the European Parliament are multilingual. ► speaker someone who can speak a particular language: speaker of English/Russian/Arabic etc: · Speakers of Cantonese often cannot understand speakers of Mandarin.English/Spanish/Urdu etc speaker: · The hotel has two English speakers on its staff.native speaker (=learnt a particular language as their first language as a child): · All our English teachers are native speakers. ► Languagesaccented, adjectiveAfrikaans, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounArabic, nounBengali, nounbilingual, adjectiveCantonese, nounChinese, nounconversant, adjectivecreole, nounDanish, noundialect, noundictation, noundirect method, noundub, verbDutch, nounEnglish, nounEsperanto, nounFarsi, nounFlemish, nounfluent, adjectiveFrancophone, adjectiveFranglais, nounFrench, adjectiveGaelic, nounGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGreek, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHindi, nounIndo-European, adjectiveItalian, nounItalo-, prefixJapanese, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectivelinguist, nounlinguistics, nounMandarin, nounMaori, nounmodern language, nounmonolingual, adjectivemother tongue, nounmultilingual, adjectivenative speaker, nounoral, nounpatois, nounPersian, nounPolish, adjectivePortuguese, nounRomance language, nounRomany, nounRussian, nounSanskrit, nounsecond language, nounSemitic, adjectivesign, nounsign, verbsign language, nounSinhalese, nounSpanish, nounspeak, verb-speak, suffixspeaker, nounSwedish, nountransliterate, verbTurkish, nounUrdu, nounusage, nounvernacular, nounvocabulary, nounWelsh, noun 1able to speak a language very wellfluent in She was fluent in English, French, and German.2 fluent French/Japanese etc someone who speaks fluent French etc speaks it like a person from that country: He spoke in fluent Italian.3fluent speech or writing is smooth and confident, with no mistakes: He was a fluent and rapid prose writer.4fluent movements are smooth and gentle, not sudden and sharp: She rose with the fluent movement of an athlete.—fluently adverb: He spoke French fluently.—fluency noun [uncountable] |