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单词 polyglottery
释义

polyglotteryn.

Brit. /pɒlɪˈɡlɒt(ə)ri/, U.S. /pɑliˈɡlɑdəri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: polyglot adj., polyglot n., -ery suffix.
Etymology: < either polyglot adj. or polyglot n.+ -ery suffix. Compare earlier polyglottism n. 1.
The knowledge or use of several languages, polyglot character; = polyglottism n. 1.
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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).
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