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polylingual
[pol-ee-ling-gwuhl]
adjective
pertaining to, expressed in, or using several languages; multilingual.
Example Sentences
“It was a strange thing to come to the realization of how others saw him just as a Black person versus this very well-educated polylingual scientist.”
Blonde, blue-eyed and polylingual, she caught the eye of English traveller Samuel Baker, who bought her.
Karim is only one member of X2AI’s polylingual family of chatbots.
In an essay entitled “Huge Baggy Monster: Mimetic Theories of the Indian Novel After Rushdie,” he notes that Indian hybridity need not be flagged in bright colors, and in busy polylingual prose, “with a scattering of untranslated Indian words and phrases and odd sentence constructions.”
Jazz is a family of languages, and Mr. Dingman is polylingual.
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When To Use
Polylingual is most commonly used to describe someone who can speak or understand multiple languages, especially someone who can speak several languages with some level of fluency.A more commonly used synonym is multilingual. The term bilingual is commonly used to describe someone who speaks two languages, and trilingual is used to describe someone who speaks three.Polylingual can also be used to describe things that involve or that are written or spoken in multiple languages, as in These instructions are polylingual—they’re written in seven different languages.Example: Being polylingual is a great advantage when applying for international jobs.
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