multilingual

[ muhl-tee-ling-gwuhl, muhl-tahy- or, Canadian, -ling-gyoo-uhl ]

adjective
  1. using or able to speak several or many languages with some facility.

  2. spoken or written in several or many languages: a multilingual broadcast.

  1. dealing with or involving several or many languages:a multilingual dictionary of business terms.

noun
  1. a multilingual person.

Origin of multilingual

1
First recorded in 1830–40; multi- + lingual

Other words from multilingual

  • mul·ti·lin·gual·ly, adverb
  • mul·ti·lin·gual·ism, noun

Words Nearby multilingual

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British Dictionary definitions for multilingual

multilingual

/ (ˌmʌltɪˈlɪŋɡwəl) /


adjective
  1. able to speak more than two languages

  2. written or expressed in more than two languages: Compare bilingual, monolingual

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