polyglot
pronunciation
How to pronounce polyglot in British English:
UK [ˈpɒliglɒt]
How to pronounce polyglot in American English:
US [ˈpɑliglɑt]
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- Noun:
- a person who speaks more than one language
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- Adjective:
- having a command of or composed in many languages
Word Origin
- polyglot (adj.)
- 1650s, from Greek polyglottos "speaking many languages," literally "many-tongued," from polys "many" (see poly-) + glotta, Attic variant of glossa "language," literally "tongue" (see gloss (n.2)). As a noun from 1640s.
Example
- 1. Wherever they come from , global mba students tend to be polyglot cosmopolitans .
- 2. It was a polyglot city of merchants , fortune-seekers and refugees , uncommonly tolerant of freedom of expression .
- 3. His accent , an inimitable polyglot growl , radiates a weariness that comes with being what he calls a " global nomad . "
- 4. Twitter 's growth around the world has reduced the proportion of total global tweets in english to 39 % from two-thirds in 2009 , but polyglot tweeters still often favour the language because of its ubiquity .
- 5. More importantly , deki wiki is the only multilingual polyglot wiki / web application in the world .