polyglot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who can speak or use several languages

   A practiced polyglot, she conducted interviews in five languages.

2. 2
   adj

   using, containing, or written in several languages

   He consulted a polyglot dictionary during the journey.

3. 3
   noun

   a book presenting the same text in several languages, especially a multilingual Bible

   The library displayed a sixteenth-century biblical polyglot.

Common collocations

• polyglot bible Adjective + noun

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.

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