All 3 Uses of
fluent
in
Funny in Farsi
- Fluent in Arabic, he had a particular interest in linguistic roots.†
p. 97.9
- I had been taking French since seventh grade, and under the tutelage of my high school teacher, Mr. Polkingharn, affectionately known as Le Polk, I had become quite fluent.†
p. 130.5 *
- The upside of my lonely two months was that I became completely fluent in French.†
p. 139.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(fluent) able to easily comprehend and express; or expressed smoothly -- especially in a foreign language
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (seen in classic literature), fluent can mean smooth or flowing -- as in: "fluent as the flight of a swallow" or "the fluent lines on the yacht" or Shakespeare's "fluent as the sea".