polyglot

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- Being a polyglot is a good thing -- we are not language bigots.

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  1. adjective Speaking, writing, written in, or composed of several languages.
  2. noun A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages.
  3. noun A book, especially a Bible, containing several versions of the same text in different languages.

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  • The city has a flavor somewhere between imperial Rome and an Asian trade city like Hong Kong: ancient, polyglot, teeming with wealth and the vice that inevitably follows it. —  Asimov'sSF,December2006
  • I hope that as happened after the closure of several Spanish language bookshops, the general bookstores will take up the slack for our polyglot city of readers. —  The Written Nerd
  • A seasoned South Asia hand and a polyglot, who speaks fluent Bengali, Hindi, Nepali and Sinhalese, A. Peter Burleigh is set to take over as the US 'Charge D' Affaires (head of mission) in —  India eNews
  • Most such programmers are polyglot (they can code in multiple languages), and quite frankly the time they spent in honing their skills with TDD, their IDE of choice, understanding Continuous Integration, OO patterns, best practices and the like dwarfs the time it takes to pick up the syntax of another scripting language. —  Application Generation
  • One way it might happen in Afghanistan is if we manage to peel off particular warlord factions within the polyglot, disunified militia that is the Taliban. —  CFR.org -
 

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  1. French polyglotte, from Greek poluglōttos : polu-, poly- + glōtta, tongue, language.
 

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/ˈpɑlɪglɑt/
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