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pol•y•glot



Pronunciation: (pol'ē-glot"), [key]
—adj.
1. able to speak or write several languages; multilingual.
2. containing, composed of, or written in several languages: a polyglot Bible.

—n.
1. a mixture or confusion of languages.
2. a person who speaks, writes, or reads a number of languages.
3. a book, esp. a Bible, containing the same text in several languages.

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