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Linguistically gifted
Answer for the clue "Linguistically gifted ", 6 letters:
fluent
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "flowing freely" (of water), also, of speakers, "able and nimble in the use of words," from Latin fluentem (nominative fluens ) "lax, relaxed," figuratively "flowing, fluent," present participle of fluere "to flow, stream, run, melt," from extended ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fluent \Flu"ent\, a. [L. fluens, -entis, p. pr. of fluere to flow; cf. Gr. ? to boil over. Cf. Fluctuate , Flux .] Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving. Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fluent refers to Fluency , the ability to communicate in a language quickly and accurately: fluent (mathematics) , in mathematics, a continuous function fluent (artificial intelligence) , in artificial intelligence, a condition that varies over time Fluent, ...
Usage examples of fluent.
Four months after he arrived at Bangkok, at the age of eight, he spoke fluent, accentless Thai.
Abysses of amnesia continually opened beneath him, but he would bridge them, nimbly, by fluent confabulations and fictions of all kinds.
Neal Custos Sylvanii knows some of our language, but he is not fluent.
At first his attention was given chiefly to improving his reading and spelling, for Dodger was far from fluent in the first, while his style of spelling many words was strikingly original.
It was hard for Joseph to make out what they were saying, for, although like all Masters he was fluent in Folkish as well as the Master tongue and the Indigene language also, the northern dialect these people used was unfamiliar to him and when they spoke rapidly and more than one was speaking at once, as they were doing now, he quickly lost the thread of their words.
Because of their academic garb, the duke said it in Keno, the academic language, which he was not truly fluent in.
She was always very fluent, he knew from Sophia, with Mrs Ter Laan in the studio, full of philosophical profundities.
They wore only the little mutsha loincloths, and hung their heads shyly as Louise greeted them in fluent rippling Sindebele.
Isailo Suk, who is fluent in Arabic and studies Islamic sources on the Khazar polemic.
The ersatz text, though containing some strikeovers and various typographical errors, was in basically fluent and intelligible Latin and described in vivid, erotic detail an imagined homosexual encounter involving the Blesses Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene.
Not an unfeasible endeavor for Decimus, who was fluent in many Gallic tongues, and envisioned no problems en route.
By the time we reached our destination my husband had shed ten years, and as we made our way through the chaos of the Cairo train station he was the old Emerson, shouting orders and expletives in fluent Arabic.
In point of fact, Rhys was fluent in both city and country French as well as Welsh, Cree, Aleut, and a few more languages, including the officialese in which he was expected to write his reports.
Far about, A hundred slopes in hundred fantasies Most ravishingly run, so smooth of curve That I but seem to see the fluent plain Rise toward a rain of clover-blooms, as lakes Pout gentle mounds of plashment up to meet Big shower-drops.
No, what caused this disintegration in a usually fairly fluent prattler with the sex was her whole mental attitude.