polyglot
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈpɑlɪˌɡlɑt/
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políglota
- As a true polyglot, she could converse fluently in five different languages.
Examples
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The crew was a polyglot mix: English, German, Icelandic, Filipino, Burmese, Scottish, Croatian, New Zealander, Ukrainian, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, and Irish.
Academic text (2002) -
Being a polyglot opened many doors for him in his international career.
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To be a successful systems scientist, one needs to become a polyglot, a person who speaks many languages and who can cross cultures.
Blog text (11) -
I'm a polyglot, but I've studied almost all of them.
Blog text (11) -
The polyglot composition of some California neighborhoods allowed for support and anonymity that is impossible in most others.
Academic text (2003) -
But what always seemed praiseworthy about this polyglot group, what overrode any individual failing, was their willingness to work, to cooperate, to give in to each other.
Fiction book (1998) -
A gifted polyglot, Mazeppa was fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Italian, Tata, German and Latin.
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A lifelong expatriate, global nomad, airline connoisseur, and enthusiastic polyglot, John spends hundreds of hours in the air and hundreds of days on the road each year.
Blog text (15) -
The festival attracted a polyglot audience who enjoyed performances in multiple languages.
Synonyms
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A person who speaks several languages fluently
How Multilingual
Surface Forms
Morphology
polyglot = polyglot (semi-transparent) = poly + glot
This noun sense is a regular zero-derivation from the adjective meaning 'polyglot' used to refer to a person with that property.
Etymology
Polyglot comes from the Greek parts poly 'many' and glot 'tongue'. A polyglot is a person who knows 'many' languages, so they can speak, read, or write in several tongues.