单词 | polyglottery |
释义 | polyglotteryn. The knowledge or use of several languages, polyglot character; = polyglottism n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > using or speaking languages > [noun] > trilingualism or multilingualism polyglottology1658 polyglottery1834 pantoglottism1848 polyglottism1852 polyglossy1910 multilingualism1916 plurilingualism1934 trilingualism1934 polylingualism1939 polyglossia1975 1834 Sun (London) 23 June Our conversation was limpingly carried on in a great variety of broken languages. Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, and English... The subject of all this polyglottery was the glories and piety of John the Fifth. 1893 Harper's Weekly 7 Jan. 3/2 It would be a great blessing were the guards proficient enough in polyglottery to be able to announce all the stations in the various languages spoken in our city. 1915 Singapore Free Press 14 Jan. If its polyglottery were all that was wrong with it [sc. Austria-Hungary], it still might be possible to jog along in a sort of mutual unintelligibility. 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Sept. 685/3 Rebuses abound, as do polyglottery (classical and modern), Finnegans wakefulness, and enormous catalogues à la Rabelais. 1997 Times (Nexis) 26 Apr. If all that polyglottery sounds like too much effort, remember that most Danes speak near-perfect English. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1834 |
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