See equilingualism on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"equilingual",
"equilingual#English"
],
[
"-ism",
"-ism#English"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "equilingual",
"3": "ism"
},
"expansion": "equilingual + -ism",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From equilingual + -ism. First use appears c. 1947. See cite below.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "equilingualisms",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "+"
},
"expansion": "equilingualism (usually uncountable, plural equilingualisms)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ism",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
49,
63
]
],
"ref": "1947, Gwan Leong Tan, Bilingual Education and Its Inherent Problems, With Special Reference to Burma, page 136:",
"text": "All investigators agree that bilingualism is not equilingualism.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
118,
132
]
],
"ref": "1975, University of Ifẹ Press (publisher), Odù, volumes 10-16, page 92:",
"text": "But considering the potential role of theory in informing and guiding practice, the real point of interest is whether equilingualism is desirable as a goal in second language learning and teaching.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
17,
32
]
],
"ref": "1979, Jacob Ornstein-Galicia, Robert N. St. Clair (editors), Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, New Readings and Insights, page 282:",
"text": "It is shown that equilingualisms, native competence in each of a bilingual's languages, is common when the languages are acquired in childhood but cannot generally be obtained after puberty.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
14
]
],
"ref": "1981, Canada, Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages (contributor), Language and Society, volumes 1-6:",
"text": "Equilingualism is fair because it tends to even out the advantages and disadvantages of being English- or French-speaking, with minorities of each language being in comparable positions.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
227,
241
]
],
"ref": "2004, Michel Paradis, A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism, page 2:",
"text": "Between these minimalist and maximalist criteria for bilingualism lie a whole range of possible definitions, and various authors have situated their requirements at intervals along a proficiency continuum, from ambilingualism, equilingualism, and diglossia to semilingualism (see below).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The state or property of being equilingual."
],
"id": "en-equilingualism-en-noun-y94k90zh",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"property",
"property"
],
[
"equilingual",
"equilingual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) The state or property of being equilingual."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "ambilingualism"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "equilingualism"
}
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"equilingual",
"equilingual#English"
],
[
"-ism",
"-ism#English"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "equilingual",
"3": "ism"
},
"expansion": "equilingual + -ism",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From equilingual + -ism. First use appears c. 1947. See cite below.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "equilingualisms",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "+"
},
"expansion": "equilingualism (usually uncountable, plural equilingualisms)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "ambilingualism"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ism",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
49,
63
]
],
"ref": "1947, Gwan Leong Tan, Bilingual Education and Its Inherent Problems, With Special Reference to Burma, page 136:",
"text": "All investigators agree that bilingualism is not equilingualism.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
118,
132
]
],
"ref": "1975, University of Ifẹ Press (publisher), Odù, volumes 10-16, page 92:",
"text": "But considering the potential role of theory in informing and guiding practice, the real point of interest is whether equilingualism is desirable as a goal in second language learning and teaching.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
17,
32
]
],
"ref": "1979, Jacob Ornstein-Galicia, Robert N. St. Clair (editors), Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, New Readings and Insights, page 282:",
"text": "It is shown that equilingualisms, native competence in each of a bilingual's languages, is common when the languages are acquired in childhood but cannot generally be obtained after puberty.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
14
]
],
"ref": "1981, Canada, Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages (contributor), Language and Society, volumes 1-6:",
"text": "Equilingualism is fair because it tends to even out the advantages and disadvantages of being English- or French-speaking, with minorities of each language being in comparable positions.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
227,
241
]
],
"ref": "2004, Michel Paradis, A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism, page 2:",
"text": "Between these minimalist and maximalist criteria for bilingualism lie a whole range of possible definitions, and various authors have situated their requirements at intervals along a proficiency continuum, from ambilingualism, equilingualism, and diglossia to semilingualism (see below).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The state or property of being equilingual."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"property",
"property"
],
[
"equilingual",
"equilingual"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) The state or property of being equilingual."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "equilingualism"
}
Download raw JSONL data for equilingualism meaning in All languages combined (3.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.