multilingual
multilingual
Definition
multi·lin·gual (mul′ti liŋ′gwəl)
adjective
- of or in several languages
- using or capable of using several languages
mul′ti·lin′·gually adverb
multilingual
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- thesaurus: Second, we discuss distinct classes of " multilingual thesaurus " , which is used in a fuzzy way in literature.
- dictionary: The multilingual rowing dictionary has moved homes to a new URL.
- lexicon: Should a multilingual lexicon capture all these similarities or should only a specific kind of similarities be captured?
- glossary: Creating a multilingual glossary of crucial terms avoids this problem; simply e-mail it to all of the translators on the project.
- corpus: For a multilingual corpus -- English-French, for instance -- the same question is asked for individual word pairs in each language.
- terminology: This multilingual terminology, which includes highly specialized set phrases, is the result of a laborious harmonization process among many countries.
Modifying Another Word
- truly: In contrast, Unicode is truly multilingual in that it can display characters from a very large number of writing systems.
- increasingly: Although increasingly multilingual, the Internet is still largely an English-language medium because of its origins in the United States.
- so: The world today is so multi-ethnic and so multilingual that it would be a shame if Britain gets trapped in monolingualism.
- also: With the European Market there are also multilingual possibilities.
Used with adjective complement
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