How To Use Polyglot In A Sentence

Finally, regional media is thriving on TV, satellite language channels are catering to polyglot populations in various parts of the country.
She was reading a polyglot bible, with the text in English, Latin and Greek.
It's not that we polyglots and film buffs are not worried.
Also, a hyperpolyglot doesn't have much of a role to play in the future of any given language, whereas a multilingual does. Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners
Here's a link to the original story for you Germans and polyglots out there.

But a major faux pas has made the new Barbie unexpectedly controversial in polyglot America: there is no Asian-American version.
South Africa itself is a rich stew, or bredie, as they call it in Afrikaans, the local Dutch polyglot. Undefined
They bow you away, first audibly pronouncing your name with polyglottic accuracy, and then you are free to wander where you like. Roman Holidays, and Others
He deeply explored notions of love, Europe, and identity, and was a polyglot who insisted that linguistic proficiency was the key to overcoming misunderstandings and ignorance.
On a recent blazing summer afternoon, in the cool vault of her underground office, bookshop director Francoise Simon sparks with enthusiasm about her stock of more than 4,000 books and her polyglot, horticulturally savvy staff. Gardens of Delight
NK: Is every healthy human born with the possibility of becoming a hyperpolyglot? Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners
The Polyglot Book of Mormon allows you see side-by-side passages for English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
Malaysia must not deviate from upholding the pluralism, tolerance and understanding that are the hallmark of a civil, democratic, multireligious, multicultural and polyglot society.
a polyglot Bible contains versions in different languages
The other one is my familiarity with a bunch of other languages (and having lived in France and Hong Kong) ... beneath this housewifey exterior lurks a polyglot. Guest Blogger Robin Burcell
She was reading a polyglot bible, with the text in English, Latin and Greek.
A downtown babel of shop signs and streets, mongrelized, polyglot, a ferment without Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture
He won in polyglot neighborhoods like Flushing and the Lower East Side by three-to-one and three-to-two, respectively.
My friend Countess Dominique de Borchgrave d'Altena, who has died aged 68 of a brain tumour, was the most unlikely prison visitor, as she herself was the first to admit – a polyglot Belgian aristocrat, more at home at smart house parties around Europe than in Britain's overcrowded prisons. Countess Dominique de Borchgrave obituary
He was not just a great linguist - phonologist, grammarian, semanticist, and polyglot - but a musician, musicologist, Orientalist, and gourmet (he wrote a book called The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters); and a wonderful humorist.
She was reading a polyglot bible, with the text in English, Latin and Greek.
Her Malay monarchy absorbed a diversity of foreign traders into a polyglot elite united by the royal person, a Malay lingua franca, and a pattern of rules and sacred regalia passed down from courts such as Malacca and Pasai.
The patrons of the Academie are a roll call of the great and good, including Michel David-Weill, of Lazards Bank, and Sir Peter Ustinov, the polyglot actor and raconteur.
Later that night, when she came home, she rummaged through her books in an effort to find an essay written by a polyglot (like herself) that explains the kind of rootlessness that is hers.
Diplomatic Warsaw is abuzz with rumours that Mr Kwasniewski, a smooth, tennis-playing polyglot who is seen as one of the champions of New Europe, won US backing on a visit to the White House earlier this month.
A polyglot bible contains versions in different languages.
Byrnes article quotes Alofsin as he explains: "A rich architectural polyglotism in Austria-Hungary paralleled the varied languages of its people … not only were many architectural languages expressed simultaneously, but they reflected various and even opposing issues of ethnic and national identity, as well as conservative or liberal ideologies. The Chicago Blog
NK: How fluent does one have to be in each language to be considered a hyperpolyglot? Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners
And yet he has been rejected by a polyglot babel of 25 countries, and the will of the people of Italy has been frustrated.
The technical breadth of such polyglot applications exceeds the expertise of any single developer or project team because of the multiple languages, technologies, methods, and platforms involved.
Al-Idrisi interviewed these polyglot traders as he labored to create the planisphere. Delizia!
Somehow or other even a British citizen with more than the usual stupidity of our race as to foreign languages can make himself understood in the Balkan Peninsula, which is so polyglottic that its inhabitants understand signs very well.) Bulgaria
A polyglot is a speaker of two or more languages, and a hyperglot a speaker of six or more. Web Translations » Blog Archive » Language learning: how much is too much?
Recently, a publication has been brought out on the less-known Suddhananda Bharati, who, like Subramanya Bharati, was a polyglot.
NK: What's the difference between a multilingual and a hyperpolyglot? Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners
I have no means of telling how many polyglots of Chinese descent existed over time.
The porter who seized my valise in the station, inferred from some very polyglottic Italian of mine the nature of my wish, and ran out and threw that slender piece of luggage into a gondola. Venetian Life
It is also the story of polyglot India, where most of the population speaks, and habitually switches among, several languages.
The polyglot Pope, at intervals, addressed the crowd in Romanian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, and Polish.
They had spent three interminable days in Barcelona, a polyglot crew united by no more than a vague common belief in democracy. THE WHITE DOVE
She was reading a polyglot bible, with the text in English, Latin and Greek.
Many of the poems attend to the ‘errors’ inevitable in a polyglot society, particularly at the interactions between Yiddish and English.
But also in the capital a polyglot city council met for the first time, its members ranging from tribal leaders in head-dresses to women in smart business suits.
A bad credit remortgage praiseworthily i pluralisation avarice the glottochronological resistor and for your wedge i polyglot obnoxiously of the radioactively ones. Rational Review
‘Chaucer would have thoroughly absorbed the language of the streets, that rich polyglot mixture of Latin patois, Anglo-Norman phraseology and English demotic,’ he writes.
The energy keeps rising as the music does, as if there might be no other place in the world worth being at than this fashion party in the Centro Histórico of Mexico City with hundreds of familiar strangers—some Mexican, some British, some American, some a mixture of Mexican, and others of Latin American polyglot heritage. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
In polyglot Turkey, for the dockworkers in Salonika to function, they had to speak half a dozen languages.
She was reading a polyglot bible, with the text in English, Latin and Greek.
But this fellow has embraced that polyglot population with a wonderful warmth that I would never have imagined…
Agassiz, a typical Swiss polyglot, annotated books in the language of their composition.
The rest of the participants appear to be polyglots.
Rebecca West filled Black Lamb and Grey Falcon with brilliant speeches and diatribes by a polyglot cast of characters, and Furst has a similar cacophony of speakers analyzing every detail of the political situation.
Beauty-ban Aftermath Singe sat working in his study, brow corrugated in polyglottal thoughts.
Otherwise, I know he'd be front and center, ready to rave about the merits of New York's polyglottic indie-rock trio, Blonde Redhead. Nashville Scene
Marco Silvestri clearly think he's the only polyglot on the planet.
After 1947, a vibrant, polyglot city became monocultural.
Apologies for my poor spelling on monoglot and polyglot (missing the "l" out). John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Joyce, living through the next decade in polyglot Trieste, finished the Portrait and began Ulysses in 1914. James Joyce
She was reading a polyglot bible, with the text in English, Latin and Greek.
He is the son of a Russian father and a Swedish mother, and a natural polyglot.
The polyglot orchestra backing her up plays world music from everywhere and nowhere that incorporates Middle Eastern clarinet, European glockenspiel and other mellifluous sounds in addition to Mexican mariachi guitar.
This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains.
Somewhere between Faust's bartered lease on life and the Count's countless days — between the poet seeking an immortality in phrased voice that he thinks will compensate for his soul's fate and the damned polyglot soul so committed to leaving his body's imprint that poetic justice requires his being hounded down by textual inscription — somewhere between these poles falls the watershed Victorian moment of a long if ultimately posthumous Romanticism. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
This Harbour is the pulse of the city and the people of Sydney are proud of the polyglottal, multi-cultural melting pot that has grown up around this sometimes blue, sometimes green, shimmering central organ.
Not to worry, though, this 61-year-old polyglot can talk to all species with the dexterity of a Doolittle.
"I enjoy Mandarin, " said the polyglot Madigan, who speaks fluent French and German, fair Italian as well as some Putonghua.
As a consequence, in order for a business to reach new markets, it is necessary to have one new essential characteristic: polyglotism. The Need for Polyglotism within Businesses
Cal Galbraith crossed over with great strides, angrily, and spoke to Madeline in polyglot Chinook. The Wife of a King
A country in which the martial virtues are extinguished cannot hope to be respected while the world remains a polyglot chaos of peoples.
[T] he films in this year's Oscar race seem to suggest the world is more globally unified and polyglot than ever before," writes Anthony's also got a followup entry at his blog: "[W] hat I neglected to mention in the story is that most of the films have not exactly done 'boffo' business. GreenCine Daily
Language was also an important consideration, but Walker claims it was polyglots, not mere English speakers, that he sought.
Mr. Blank's festive chronicles of indigenous American subjects, whether the Cajun musicians he often celebrates or the sensual grins that light up the funkily feminist "Gap-Toothed Women," echo with a promiscuous, polyglot joy. Aliens, Operas and a Blank Slate of Documentaries
Older Luritja speakers may still be polyglots, however they consistently live in the same region, usually the same residential community, where the same language is consistently spoken.
Siamese, Englishmen and Yanks, who negotiate and this interchange of wares manage to conduct the bargaining in their various lingoes by the aid of a polyglot dialect of their own, chuckling over the dollars and cash and cowries as they rake them in with the impression that they are getting the best of the deal, when all the time, perhaps, they are being cheated themselves! Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
Additionally, for the multilingual, learning another language is a way to participate in their community, but for a hyperpolyglot, it always brings them away from their community -- their local community, anyway. Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners
Slovenians, being surrounded by many countries, are mostly polyglots.
Hajek, the polyglot Central European co-ordinating producer, had brought in locals for the crowd scenes, some with minor speaking parts. PASSION IN THE PEAK
As a polyglot (besides his native Swedish, he was fluent in Finnish, English, and German and knew some French) and cultured person, LvH was Finnish ornithology's best ambassador.
They had spent three interminable days in Barcelona, a polyglot crew united by no more than a vague common belief in democracy. THE WHITE DOVE
A polyglot Englishman in Vienna and Berlin, a Jewish immigrant in Britain and a maverick among Communists, Hobsbawm is today almost as much at home in France, Italy and Latin America as he is in Hyde Park.
ME: I started my investigations with the definition that a hyperpolyglot is someone who speaks six or more languages, based on work by Dick Hudson, a University College London linguist, but that ought to be revised upward, to 11 languages or more. Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners
I have heard some of them talk vigorous sense — yea, I have been present at polyglot discussions in the old, oak-lined dining-room at Hunsden Wood, where a singular insight was given of the sentiments entertained by resolute minds respecting old northern despotisms, and old southern superstitions: also, I have heard much twaddle, enounced chiefly in The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
And uniross battery charger, arithmetic, sex on ex and setterwort on polyglot are as operative now as the juiceless jumbal was for our omen. Rational Review
I did not notice the picturesque Copts and the Armenians, did not register the toasted-sesame smell of the round bread loaves that passed beneath our noses on the panniers of a donkey, did not even hear the strange, flat clang of bells or the “bakshish” cries of the beggars or the polyglot of tongues. O Jerusalem
It's great that this polyglottal octogenarian can still put the wind up blowhard moralists.
Later he speaks to her in polyglot Chinook and insists she come home with him. “There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice.”
This slim young man, barely twenty, was a living encyclopedia: a renowned polyglot, paleographer, and cryptographer. The Sion Revelation
The crux of the problem was not the polyglotism involved in Web development, but all these technologies were often found to be competitive with overlapping responsibilities. Ruminations of a Programmer
THE polyglots of Iceland should be able to cope with the name Huang Nubo. The Economist: Daily news and views
There was a vociferous red-faced polyglot personal conductor in a pepper-and-salt suit, very long in the arms and legs and very active. Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
a polyglot traveler
Hajek, the polyglot Central European co-ordinating producer, had brought in locals for the crowd scenes, some with minor speaking parts. PASSION IN THE PEAK
He was a polyglot and absorbed everything around him and didn't limit himself, and that makes him exceptional in a world that too often prizes limitation.
A Brazilian-born polyglot who can be both charismatic and ruthless, Ghosn did not make his mark in the industry by leaving things as he found them.
The polyglot entries were random, frustrating, and beautiful, a carnival of ideas, pleas, boasts, and obsolete phone numbers.
In fact, they think of themselves as three separate peoples whom they call the Cimbri, the Teutones, and a rather polyglot third group made up of a number of smaller peoples who have joined up with the Cimbri and the Teutones during their wanderings — the Marcomanni, Cherusci, and Tigurini — who, according to my German interpreter, are more Celt than German in origins. The First Man in Rome
New York is an exciting polyglot city.
The question is, do hyperpolyglot brains have some functional or structural difference that precedes intensive language learning? Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners
The six years since her debut La Llorona have taken Montreal's celebrated, polyglot chanteuse Lhasa de Sela far and wide, including a hit-and-run circus tour through France with her family.
American conservatives have spent the last few decades trying to make America into the kind of country where a minority can shut itself up into homogeneous gated communities, defend itself with guns against intruders, and drive to work in SUVs that provide massive armor-plated protection against contact of any kind with the teeming polyglot of America outside. Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie
To some, it seemed to be the “polyglotification” of English, by scads of new words coming in from all directions. The English Is Coming!
In the next tale it will occur with the sense of polyglottic. Arabian nights. English
Nik, as luck would have it, is something of a polyglot.
Shivani: In "Letter to Alfred Corn," we overhear a conversation with a friend: "I'll be back in New York, feeling ten times more alien/than where the polyglot boulevards intersect, linking up/11e and 20e, Maghreb, punk chic, kashruth, chinoiserie. Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker
And uniross battery charger, arithmetic, sex on ex and setterwort on polyglot are as operative now as the juiceless jumbal was for our omen. Rational Review
But the city's polyglot hybrid culture also made it a gateway for young Indians from the hinterland to urban India in general.
The hyperpolyglot also keeps a set of languages "on ice" -- ones that are not kept active or immediately available but which need to be "warmed up" for use. Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners
In summer its narrow streets are thronged with tour buses, its bars and restaurants noisy with the polyglot banter of tourists from Idaho, Oslo and Moscow.
Byrnes article quotes Alofsin as he explains: "A rich architectural polyglotism in Austria-Hungary paralleled the varied languages of its people… not only were many architectural languages expressed simultaneously, but they reflected various and even opposing issues of ethnic and national identity, as well as conservative or liberal ideologies. The Chicago Blog: January 2007 Archives
This is not the first time that a representative of The Netherlands - that distinguished nation of cycling polyglots - has cast aspersions on our linguistic abilities.
The advantages of printing in a university were exemplified in the polyglot Bible produced in 1502-22 at Alcalá de Henares.
But polyglotism has its limits and, at some point, a reader must depend on the translator for some semblance of literary verisimilitude. Mark Axelrod: The Day Before Happiness
In Bombay, which he calls a polyglot city, the Goan world is eclectic, informed by an urban Christianity that mingles with a mainstream culture while trying to preserve its identity.
By the way, the term polyglot from its Greek roots literally means many tongues. Planet Python
The technical breadth of such polyglot applications exceeds the expertise of any single developer or project team because of the multiple languages, technologies, methods, and platforms involved.
Was this a polyglottic joke the countess had arranged for him? The Lesser Bourgeoisie

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