| 单词 | polyglot |
| 释义 | polyglot (once / 10190 pages) nadj Ni hao! Comment allez-vous? Estoy bien, gracias. Sayōnara! If you understood everything you just read, you’re probably a polyglot — a person who understands multiple languages. There are thousands of languages spoken in the world, but you don’t need to know them all to be a polyglot. The –glot comes from the Greek word for “tongue,” and the prefix poly- means “more than one,” so if you speak two or more languages, you’re technically a polyglot. Well done! Polyglot can also be used as an adjective, like describing "a polyglot neighborhood" full of people from many different cultures or the "polyglot crowd at the Olympic games." WORD FAMILYpolyglot: polyglots USAGE EXAMPLESIn it, our interspecies polyglot shifts his research into a higher gear. Nature(Dec 06, 2016) Author, diplomat, autodidact, university founder, polyglot, governor, president — and also slaveholder. Washington Times(Dec 01, 2016) Using a polyglot of Vietnamese, French and English, “we could all converse,” he added. Washington Times(Nov 21, 2016) 1n a person who speaks more than one language Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper linguist Joseph Greenberg United States linguist who studied the historical relations among 5,000 languages (1916-2001) Zellig Sabbatai HarrisUnited States linguist (born in Ukraine) who developed mathematical linguistics and interpreted speech and writing in a social context (1909-1992) bilingual, bilingualist a person who speaks two languages fluently transcriber, translatora person who translates written messages from one language to another individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 2adj having a command of or composed in many languages a polyglot traveler a polyglot Bible contains versions in different languages Syn multilingual using or knowing more than one language |
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