fluentadjective
usuk/ˈfluː.ənt/B2 When a person is fluent, they can speak a language easily, well, and quickly:
She's fluent in French.
He's a fluent Russian speaker.
B2 When a language is fluent, it is spoken easily and without many pauses:
He speaks fluent Chinese.
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- She's fluent in French and English and has a working knowledge of Spanish.
- She was born in Italy but her English is fluent and idiomatic.
- I can make myself understood in French, but I'm not fluent.
- My partner is a fluent Russian speaker.
- He knows quite a lot of French, but he's not fluent yet.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Talkative and eloquent
- articulate
- chatterbox
- communicative
- cry
- eloquent
- expansive
- expressive
- garrulous
- gift
- gossip
- in full cry idiom
- mouth
- oratory
- silver-tongued
- smooth
- talkative
- the gift of the gab idiom
- turn of phrase
- voluble
- well turned
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Ways of speaking
fluency
noun [ U ] usuk/-ən.si/
B2
One of the requirements of the job is fluency in two or more African languages.
fluently
adverb usuk/-li/
B2
I'd like to speak English fluently.