How to pronounce“polyglot”in English
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Definitions of “polyglot”
A publication in several languages; specifically, a book (especially a bible) containing several versions of the same subject matter or text in several languages.
“[T]hose coming to the warehouses' doors fired them, and burned all the books and the pillars of the church, […] A great want thereof there will be of books, specially Latin books and foreign books; and, among others, the Polyglottes and new Bible, which he believes will be presently worth £40 a-piece.”
One who has mastered (especially when able to speak) several languages.
“Laſtly, a polyg[l]ot or good linguiſt may alſo be term'd a uſefull learned man, ſpecially if vers'd in School-languages.”
Of a person: speaking, or versed in, many languages; multilingual.
“'[T]is thought the two and twenty Languages which Mythrydates the great Polyglot King of Pontus did ſpeak, wer all within the circumference of Anatolia in regard his dominions extended but a little further: […]”
Containing, or made up of, several languages; specifically, of a book (especially a bible): having text translated into several languages.
“a polyglot bible a polyglot lexicon”
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