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POLYGLOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who speaks more than one language
Synonyms:
linguist; polyglot
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("polyglot" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "polyglot"):
bilingual; bilingualist (a person who speaks two languages fluently)
transcriber; translator (a person who translates written messages from one language to another)
Instance hyponyms:
Greenberg; Joseph Greenberg (United States linguist who studied the historical relations among 5,000 languages (1916-2001))
Harris; Zellig Harris; Zellig Sabbatai Harris (United States linguist (born in Ukraine) who developed mathematical linguistics and interpreted speech and writing in a social context (1909-1992))
Derivation:
polyglot (having a command of or composed in many languages)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a command of or composed in many languages
Example:
a polyglot Bible contains versions in different languages
Classified under:
Similar:
multilingual (using or knowing more than one language)
Derivation:
polyglot (a person who speaks more than one language)
