quadrilingual

American  

[kwod-ruh-ling-gwuhl, -ling-gyoo-uhl] / ˌkwɒd rəˈlɪŋ gwəl, -ˈlɪŋ gyu əl /

adjective

1. using or involving four languages.

   a quadrilingual person; a quadrilingual translation of the Bible.

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Etymology

Origin of quadrilingual

First recorded in 1960–65; quadri- + lingual

Example Sentences

It was also a quadrilingual glimpse into a multicultural future.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scheme's principal feature was the inclusion of representatives of all four major political parties on the seven-man Federal Council that serves as the quadrilingual nation's governing body.

From Time Magazine Archive

Austrian ski fans, waiting below by the finish line, stared up into the fog and listened to the quadrilingual loudspeaker trace Werner's plummeting progress.

From Time Magazine Archive

I long to see him and his wife driving past, with the proper escort of Life Guards, under a vista of quadrilingual mottoes, bowing acknowledgments to us.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Yet Belgium is bilingual and Switzerland is quadrilingual.

From The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry