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| polyglot | |
| 1. adj. Versed in, or speaking, many languages. |  |
| 2. adj. Containing, or made up of, several languages. | |
| a polyglot lexicon | |
| a polyglot Bible | |
| 3. adj. 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. | |
| 4. n. One who masters, notably speaks, several languages. | |
| 5. n. A publication containing several versions of the same text, or the same subject matter in several languages; especially, the Bible in several languages. | |
| 6. n. A mixture of langages and/or nomenclatures | |
| 7. n. (programming) A program written in multiple programming languages. | |
