Unilingual

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun

1
a person who understands only one language

Adjective

1
knowing or using a single language not-comparable
"If you're black you've had to improvise communication with unilingual whites, she'd probably easily acquire this ancient one, too."

Synonyms

monolingual monolingual

Antonyms

multilingual plurilingual

Example

"If you're black you've had to improvise communication with unilingual whites, she'd probably easily acquire this ancient one, too."

Etymology

From uni- + lingual.

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