Meanings
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noun
a person who can speak or use several languages
A practiced polyglot, she conducted interviews in five languages.
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adj
using, containing, or written in several languages
He consulted a polyglot dictionary during the journey.
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noun
a book presenting the same text in several languages, especially a multilingual Bible
The library displayed a sixteenth-century biblical polyglot.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
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noun
· a person who can speak or...
multilinguistlinguist
2
adj
· using, containing, or...
multilingual
3
noun
· a book presenting the same...
multilingual edition
Opposites
monolingual
Etymology
From Greek polyglottos ("speaking many languages"), formed from poly- ("many") + glotta or glossa ("tongue, language"). English first used the word of multilingual books and people; the adjective naturally extended to speech, dictionaries, and other material involving many languages.