polyglot
a person who knows and uses several languages
Word origin: From Greek polyglottos, many-tongued, from poly (many) and glotta (tongue).
Polyglot in a sentence
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As a polyglot who spoke seven languages, she thrived in the international diplomatic corps.
The trading port was a polyglot hub where merchants conducted business in half a dozen tongues.
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The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.
Using “polyglot” well
A polyglot is someone fluent in many languages; as an adjective it describes a place or text using many languages. Its opposite is monolingual.
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