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Definition of Trilingual
1. Adjective. Using or knowing three languages. "Trilingual speakers"
Definition of Trilingual
1. a. Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in three languages.
Definition of Trilingual
1. Adjective. Able to read or speak three languages. ¹
2. Adjective. Expressed or written in three languages. ¹
3. Noun. A trilingual person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trilingual
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trilingual
Literary usage of Trilingual
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom (1870)
"ON THE trilingual INSCRIPTION AT SAN (DECREE OF CANOPUS). ... THE discovery by
Professor Lepsius of a new trilingual tablet at San, resembling in its nature ..."
2. English Plant Names from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century by John Earle (1880)
"VI A trilingual Vocabulary of the names of Plants, of the Thirteenth Century.
WRIGHT, p. 139. ... trilingual ..."
3. Islam in China: A Neglected Problem by Marshall Broomhall (1910)
"Here there is a trilingual inscription in Arabic, Persian, and Chinese. It is
dated 1750 AD, and, as will be seen from the facsimile reproduced opposite, ..."
4. Assyrian Discoveries: An Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the Site by George Smith (1875)
"trilingual text. — Artaxerxes. — Parthian date. — Important evidence. JHE present
chapter is not a natural division of the history, as it includes texts of ..."