polyglot

1. 1.

   a person who speaks more than one language

   Synonymslinguist

   Broaderperson

   NarrowerbilingualtranslatorGreenbergHarris

1. 1.

   having a command of or composed in many languages

   “a polyglot traveler”

   “a polyglot Bible contains versions in different languages”

   Similarmultilingual

Other forms of polyglot

plural

polyglots·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about polyglot

What does polyglot mean?

polyglot means "a person who speaks more than one language". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in polyglot?

polyglot has 3 syllables: po-ly-glot. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˌpɑˌliɡlɑt/.

What is another word for polyglot?

Close synonyms include linguist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is polyglot a common word?

polyglot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.