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polyglot Definition

poly·glot (päli glät′)

adjective

  1. speaking or writing several languages
  2. containing or written in several languages

Etymology: Gr polyglōttos < poly-, poly- + glōtta, the tongue: see glottis

noun

  1. a polyglot person
  2. a polyglot book
  3. a mixture or confusion of languages

polyglot Synonyms

polyglot

modif.

bilingual, multilingual, polyglottic, polylingual, learned in languages, diglottic, diglot, hexaglot, Panglossian.

polyglot Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • community: Nevertheless, it is Britishness that holds this polyglot community together.
  • people: One map showed the distribution of the polyglot peoples.
  • dictionary: A specialist polyglot dictionary of musical terms in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Hungarian.

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