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Definitions for fluent
ˈflu əntflu·ent

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fluent, fluid, liquid, smoothadjective

    smooth and unconstrained in movement

    "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"

  2. eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spokenadjective

    expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively

    "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech"

Wiktionary

  1. fluentadjective

    That flows; flowing, liquid.

  2. fluentadjective

    Able to speak a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.

  3. Etymology: From fluens.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. FLUENTadjective

    Etymology: fluens, Latin.

    It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupified. Francis Bacon.

    Motion being a fluent thing, and one part of its duration being absolutely independent upon another, it doth not follow that because any thing moves this moment, it must necessarily continue to do so the next. John Ray, on the Creation.

    Those have some natural dispositions, which have better grace in youth than in age, such as is a fluent and luxurious speech. Francis Bacon.

    I shall lay before you all that’s within me,
    And with most fluent utterance. John Denham, Sophy.

  2. Fluentnoun

    Stream; running water.

    Confiding in their hands, that sed’lous strive
    To cut th’ outrageous fluent; in this distress,
    Ev’n in the sight of death. Phillips.

Wikipedia

  1. fluent

    Fluency (also called volubility and eloquency) is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise.

ChatGPT

  1. fluent

    Fluent generally refers to the ability to express oneself easily and articulately. It is often used in the context of speaking or understanding a particular language very well. It can also refer to anything that is performed in a smooth, graceful, or effortless manner.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fluentadjective

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

  2. Fluentadjective

    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

  3. Fluentnoun

    a current of water; a stream

  4. Fluentnoun

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

  5. Etymology: [L. fluens, -entis, p. pr. of fluere to flow; cf. Gr. to boil over. Cf. Fluctuate, Flux.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Fluent

    flōō′ent, adj. ready in the use of words: voluble: marked by copiousness.—n. the variable quantity in fluxions.—ns. Flu′ence (Milt.), Flu′ency, Flu′entness, readiness or rapidity of utterance: volubility.—adv. Flu′ently. [L. fluens, fluentis, pr.p. of fluĕre, to flow.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FLUENT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fluent is ranked #91221 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Fluent surname appeared 202 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fluent.

    98% or 198 total occurrences were White.

Anagrams for fluent »

  1. unfelt

  2. unleft

  3. netful

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fluent in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fluent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of fluent in a Sentence

  1. Adam Waytz:

    In general, humans care about other humans, so when we humanize something inanimate, it makes us care about the thing more, naming things can make them more memorable, easier to recall, and certainly it makes things feel more fluent or easy to process. Given that work shows that easily processed information takes on outsized importance in our minds, it is likely that naming things can give them importance as well.

  2. Junko Ishido:

    Kenji's English is very good. He should sound more fluent.

  3. Sarah Palin:

    It's a benefit of Jeb Bush to be able to be so fluent in Spanish, because we have a large and wonderful Hispanic population that is helping to build America.

  4. Charles Boberg of McGill University:

    The speaker is obviously a native speaker of Arabic, given the way he speaks that language and the influence it has on his English but his English is extremely fluent, to a level I would label near-native.

  5. William Plomer:

    Johannes Meintjes… is one of the more articulate South Africans of his generation. A prolific painter, he is also a fluent author in both English and Afrikaans. With unresting curiosity about South African national and regional history, he seems blessedly free from political or racial bias, and when he writes of nations or persons in conflict is alert to what is good or bad on both sides.

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