English
polyglot
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈpɒliːɡlɒt/
Adjective

polyglot (not comparable)

  1. Versed in, or speaking, many languages.
    • 1911: Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid, p.41
      For this flyaway son of a Phoenician did not seem to wait for the decision of the polyglot Judges of the Emigration Board.
  2. Containing, or made up of, several languages.
    a polyglot lexicon
    a polyglot Bible
  3. Comprising various linguistic groups.
    A polyglot region without a clearly dominant culture may develop an artificial lingua franca, such as Pidgin English in the South Sea.
Translations Translations Noun

polyglot (plural polyglots)

  1. One who has mastered, notably speaks, several languages.
    • a polyglot, or good linguist
  2. A publication containing several versions of the same text, or the same subject matter in several languages; especially, the Bible in several languages.
    • 1792, Archbishop William Newcome, An Historical View of the English Biblical Translations: The Expediency of Revising by Authority our Present Translation: and the Means of Executing such a Revision, publ. by John Exshaw, page 239.
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  3. A mixture of languages or nomenclatures.
  4. (programming) A program written in multiple programming languages.
  5. (computing) A file that can be validly interpreted as multiple formats.
    • 2015, Joxean Koret, ‎Elias Bachaalany, The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook (page 148)
      For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on. […] There are various example polyglots, including a PDF file that is also a valid HTML file with JavaScript, […]
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