bilateral
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- (General American) IPA(key): /baɪˈlætəɹəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ætəɹəl
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bilateral (comparative more bilateral, superlative most bilateral)
- Having two sides.
- 1989 June 21 [1989 June 20], “El Salvador's Vice President Visits Taiwan”, in Daily Report: China[1], numbers 81-118, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 81, column 2:
- General Wego W.K. Chiang, secretary general of the National Security Council, said that the visit of El Salvador Vice President Merino to Taipei on behalf of President Alfredo Cristiani was in response to an invitation of the ROC [Republic of China] Government which hopes to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.
- Involving both sides equally.
- (of an agreement) Binding on both of the two parties involved.
- Having bilateral symmetry.
- (anthropology) Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family.
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bilateral (plural bilaterals)
- A meeting between two people or groups.
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bilateral m or f (masculine and feminine plural bilaterals)
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- “bilateral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bilateral”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bilateral” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bilateral” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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bilateral m or f (plural bilaterais)
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- “bilateral” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
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bilateral (strong nominative masculine singular bilateraler, not comparable)
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Indonesian edit
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Internationalism, affixed lateral + bi-, borrowed from Dutch bilateraal.
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bilatêral
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- “bilateral” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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bilateral (not comparable)
Luxembourgish edit
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bilateral (masculine bilateralen, neuter bilateraalt, not comparable)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From bi- + lateral, from Latin lateralis, compare with Latin bilateralis.
Adjective edit
bilateral (masculine and feminine bilateral, neuter bilateralt, definite singular and plural bilaterale)
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- “bilateral” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “bilateral” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From bi- + lateral, from Latin lateralis.
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bilateral (neuter bilateralt, definite singular and plural bilaterale)
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- “bilateral” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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bilateral m or f (plural bilaterais)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French bilatéral. By surface analysis, bi- + lateral.
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bilateral m or n (feminine singular bilaterală, masculine plural bilaterali, feminine and neuter plural bilaterale)
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singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | bilateral | bilaterală | bilaterali | bilaterale | ||
definite | bilateralul | bilaterala | bilateralii | bilateralele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | bilateral | bilaterale | bilaterali | bilaterale | ||
definite | bilateralului | bilateralei | bilateralilor | bilateralelor |
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bilateral m or f (masculine and feminine plural bilaterales)
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- “bilateral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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bilateral (not comparable)
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Inflection of bilateral | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | bilateral | — | — |
Neuter singular | bilateralt | — | — |
Plural | bilaterala | — | — |
Masculine plural3 | bilaterale | — | — |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | bilaterale | — | — |
All | bilaterala | — | — |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |