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Webster 1913 Edition
Fluent
Flu′ent
,Adj.
1.
Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
2.
Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness;
as, a
; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; – said of language; fluent
speakeras,
. fluent
speechWith most
fluent
utterance. Denham.
Fluent
as the flight of a swallow is the sultan’s letter. De Quincey.
Flu′ent
,Noun.
1.
A current of water; a stream.
[Obs.]
2.
[Cf. F.
fluente
.] (Math.)
A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; – called, in the modern calculus, the
function
or integral
. Webster 1828 Edition
Fluent
FLU'ENT
,Adj.
1.
Liquid; flowing.2.
Flowing; passing.Motion being a fluent thing.
3.
Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as a fluent speaker.4.
Flowing; voluble; smooth; as fluent speech.FLU'ENT
,Noun.
1.
A stream; a current of water. [Little used.]2.
The variable or flowing quantity in fluxions.Definition 2024
fluent
fluent
English
Adjective
fluent (comparative more fluent, superlative most fluent)
- That flows; flowing, liquid.
- fluent handwriting
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- For time is a fleeting thing, and which appeareth as in a shadow, with the matter ever gliding, alwaies fluent, without ever being stable or permanent […].
- (linguistics) Able to speak a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.
- She's fluent in French.
Usage notes
In casual use, “fluency” refers to language proficiency broadly, while in narrow use it refers to speaking a language flowingly, rather than haltingly.
Translations
able to speak a language accurately and confidently
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Related terms
Noun
fluent (plural fluents)
- (mathematics, obsolete) A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.