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noun

Polyglot n.

One who speaks several languages. (R.) "A polyglot, or good linguist."

A book containing several versions of the same text, or containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the Scriptures in several languages. "Enriched by the publication of polyglots."

adjective

Polyglot adj.

Containing, or made up, of, several languages; as, a polyglot lexicon, Bible.

Versed in, or speaking, many languages.

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Etymology of 'Polyglot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Polyglot" Quotes from Famous Books

... a solitary voice Should say "These verses polyglot Are not so bad," I should rejoice; But oh, my publishers would not! * * * * * And I, though shy and unanointed, Should ...

— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams

... a very interesting and engrossing topic may be concluded by a reference to a particular spear. Since it consoles and comforts the solitary walks of an aged man, steeped to the lips in the superstitions of his race, and haply ignorant of, or indifferent to, the polyglot pastimes of the younger generation soiled by contact with the whites, the spear, though not a weapon of offence or of sport, is serious and indeed vital to the peace of mind of its owner. He is one of the few who were young men when the white folks intruded upon the race, with their wretched practical ...

— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield

... unprogressive polyglot settlement, and the place assumed a still more primeval character when the Indian Reservation was formed near by. When French Canadian settlers arrived, however, the place became less discordant to the life of a new democracy, though they did little to make it modern in the sense that Lebanon, ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... printer, who knows half the literatures of the world, and MacLachan, the tailor, to whom Carlyle is by way of being light reading. She delivered some edifying exhortations upon the subject of Americanism to Polyglot Elsa, of the Elite Restaurant (who had taken upon her sturdy young shoulders the support of an old mother and a paralytic sister, so that her two brothers might enlist for the war—a detail of patriotism which the dispenser of platitudes might have learned by judicious inquiry). And so forth ...

— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... that the very man whom he had come from Monaco to seek, was now already at Aix la Chapelle, on his way to America, on a long leave. He had wearily made a tour of the principal hotels and scanned the registers with no lucky find! Not a single gleam of hope shone out in all the polyglot inscriptions passing under his eye! And so he had sadly betaken himself to a safe, retired place, where he could hold ...

— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage

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