Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary.
- adj. Using or having the ability to use several languages: a multilingual translator.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to multiple languages.
- adj. of a person able to communicate fluently in multiple languages
WordNet 3.0
- adj. using or knowing more than one language
Etymologies
- multi- + -lingual (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The World Digital Library makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.”
“The feature, he adds, has a certain multilingual appeal as well.”
“Firstly that initial training courses for native speaker teachers have traditionally taken place (and still do) in multilingual settings in the UK and secondly that itinerant native speaker teachers feel uncomfortable with translation in class if they don’t speak the learners L1.”
“With Web-Translations’ experience in multilingual websites and online promotion, many were keen for more information, though were happier to refer to a website when at home, rather than carry away printed information on the day: does Germany already have an engrained green streak?”
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“The Logos Wordtheque is a word-by-word multilingual library with a massive database of 325,916,827 words extracted from multilingual novels, technical literature and translated texts.”
“The Logos Wordtheque is a word-by-word multilingual library with a massive database (325,916,827 words as of December 10, 1998) containing multilingual novels, technical literature and translated texts.”
“But then I think about what is probably my main barrier in gaining the ability to be multilingual, which is opportunities to use the language, and the problem with opportunity lies with my personality.”
“Perhaps we could see the rise of "multilingual" niche presses in the future, that specialise in translation rights of sff novels between English and other languages.”
“A person who speaks more than two languages is "multilingual".”
“This kind of multilingual media revolution is essential to spread Dalit culture.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘multilingual’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Worthy Wordie
words learnt from the Internet
unthink, meme, logophile, netiquette, onomatopoeia, singularity, oed, johnson's dictionary, man friday, lewis carroll, ontology, pro bono and 143 more...
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lingui-, linguo
language
linguopalatal, bilingual, multilingual, linguistics, linguist
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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lucidityprevails's Words
lucidity, journalistic, truthiness, foolhardy, egotism, lesbian, orgasmic, activism, moonglow, voodoo, conquer, demolish and 534 more...
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from work
fullwidth, masculine ordinal..., re-key, glyph, logical segment, risk-based, syntactic, dossier, pseudotranslation, Unicode, ASCII, redlines and 64 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for multilingual.
immerbeta "We need to become more multilingual in our thinking and in our abilities."
David Crystal, The Language Revolution Sep 28, 2008