polyglot
Noun
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A person who speaks more than one language (synset 110283916)
subtypes:
- bilingual, bilingualist - a person who speaks two languages fluently
- transcriber, translator - a person who translates written messages from one language to another
specific instances:- 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)
same as: linguist
Adjective
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Having a command of or composed in many languages (synset 301550071)
"a polyglot traveler"; "a polyglot Bible contains versions in different languages"similar to: multilingual - using or knowing more than one language
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