(a.) Containing, or made up, of, several languages; as, a polyglot lexicon, Bible.
(a.) Versed in, or speaking, many languages.
(n.) One who speaks several languages.
(n.) A book containing several versions of the same text, or containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the Scriptures in several languages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hungary, now one of Europe’s keenest proponents of border protection, was less than a century ago part of a polyglot, multinational commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian empire.
(2) Mirror writing and reading in this polyglot individual affected only the sinistrad (Hebrew) writing and reading system, leaving the dextrad (Latin) system unimpaired.
(3) Outside on the pavement, a polyglot scrum of journalists waited impatiently for news.
(4) Two cases of aphasia in polyglot patients who experienced different symptoms in each of the languages they knew are reported.
(5) Polyglot Roman emperor Charles V declared: "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."
(6) Clegg, something of a cosmopolitan polyglot, picked tracks from all over the world.
(7) In Rates Of Exchange, the imaginary Slakan language was largely invented over several years by the combined contributions of the polyglot participants of the council's annual Cambridge seminar of contemporary writing, of which Bradbury was the founder and, for many years, chairman.
(8) The issue of polylingualism and polyglotism reintroduces some general psychoanalytic hypotheses.
(9) It is argued in this comment that both language mixing (including utterance-level mixing) and spontaneous translation are also found in normal polyglots, and that they may not therefore always be reflecting language deficit in aphasics.
(10) Cerebral asymmetries for L1 (Italian), L2 (English), and L3 (French, German, Spanish, or Russian) were studied, by using a verbal-manual interference paradigm, in a group of Italian right-handed polyglot female students at the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori (SSLM-School for Interpreters and Translators) of the University of Trieste and in a control group of right-handed monolingual female students at the Medical School of the University of Trieste.
(11) Compared to the politicians who went before, including the raving Rudy Giuliani, the polyglot former model was a positively Evita-esque breath of fresh air.
(12) Perecman (1984) Brain and Language, 23, 43-63, proposes that language mixing (and especially utterance level mixing) in polyglot aphasics reflects a linguistic deficit and that spontaneous translation indicates a prelinguistic processing deficit.
(13) Reith was conservative and traditionalist in his own taste, but from its earliest days the BBC was a culturally polyglot organisation, a clash of aesthetic tones.
(14) This could explain why, in some polyglots, aphasia affects one of the known languages preferentially.
(15) These studies emphasize that overall incidence studies in a polyglot population can have very limited meaning, and that greater attention must be paid to the actual racial variations within a population.
(16) In subjects in whom the different known idioms were learned during early childhood, the anatomical representation of the languages is similar, which explains why, in this kind of polyglot, all the known languages can be equally affected by cerebral damage that causes aphasia.
(17) The 85-year-old polyglot does it all, and the Guardian has called him the "god of gravitas".
(18) The predominantly white working class has morphed into a more polyglot, multi-ethnic working-class community with its fair share of asylum seekers and refugees, but it is the ethos that has changed more.
(19) The upper classes will presumably continue to cultivate languages because elites know how to reproduce themselves (the present cabinet is the most polyglot in recent history).
(20) The authors discuss the problem and analyze the available literature in an attempt to formulate a pathogenetic hypothesis of the different involvement of the known idioms sometimes observed in aphasic polyglots.
Trilingual
Definition:
(a.) Containing, or consisting of, three languages; expressed in three languages.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a trilingual translator, Vásquez has rendered works by EM Forster and John Dos Pasos, as well as Victor Hugo, into Spanish.
(2) However, most significant was the third element of what was billed as a "trilingual" production that was communicated through movement and imagery, including a hallucinogenic scene of communal dope-smoking seen first straight on, and then from above, "from the point of view of the moon" with the spaced-out characters lying flat on the stage, so the audience were looking down on their heads.
(3) "I'd also like to point out that raising kids trilingually is maybe one of the latest European problems.
(4) Trilingualism is usually more of a choice, a luxury option associated with intelligence, language talent and education.