polyglot [ pol-ee-glot ]
adjective
1. able to speak or write several languages; multilingual.
2. containing, composed of, or written in several languages: a polyglot Bible.
noun
3. a mixture or confusion of languages.
4.a person who speaks, writes, or reads a number of languages.
5. a book, especially a Bible, containing the same text in several languages.
OTHER WORDS FROM POLYGLOT
pol·y·glot·ism, noun
WORDS RELATED TO POLYGLOT
linguist, wordsmith, adapter, cryptologist, decoder, dragoman, cryptographer, philologist, phonologist, etymologist, lexicologist, glossarist, phonetician, interpreter, lexicographer, grammarian, explainer, glossator, definer, glossographer
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Origin: 1635–45; < Medieval Latin polyglōttus < Greek polýglōttos many-tongued. See poly-, -glot
HOW TO USE POLYGLOT IN A SENTENCE
Los Angeles was wonderfully exotic; a polyglot mix of Aztec, Incan, Mayan and New World scents and sounds.
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As the elite polyglot sex workers entertained the foreign sailors they whispered sweet Soviet propaganda into their ears.
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And in recent decades, the Valley has become ethnically polyglot and more complex.
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One morning, he discovered the campus of a theological seminary that he now covets for a polyglot academy he dreams of starting.
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