Definition of Fluent

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Fluent

Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.

Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.

A current of water; a stream.

A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.

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Fluent Quotations

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
Billie Joe Armstrong

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
Natalie Portman

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
Sean Connery

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
Richard Blackmore

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
Buck Henry

Fluent Translations

fluent in Dutch is stromend, vloeiend
fluent in Latin is eloquens, facundus, volubilis
fluent in Norwegian is flytende
fluent in Spanish is fluido
fluent in Swedish is flytande

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