multilingualmul‧ti‧lin‧gual /ˌmʌltɪˈlɪŋɡwəl◂/ adjective 
Examples
the problems of a multilingual classroom a multilingual phrasebook—multilingualism noun [uncountable]
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- a multilingual phrasebook
- Many people who work at the European Parliament are multilingual.
- The hotel has a multilingual staff.
- A particular priority is research on classroom interaction in multiethnic and multilingual classrooms. 10.
- In fact, well-educated, multilingual women from many different countries worked as international stewardesses.
- It offers multilingual and interdisciplinary curriculum at University degree level.
- Recent surveys including that carried out by the Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 have revealed the extent to which Britain is multilingual.
- Such a policy would be of especial benefit to bilingual or multilingual children.
- There is growing interest in multilingual thesauri for application in international information retrieval networks.
Longman Language Activatorto speak a language► speak
using, speaking, or written in several different languages → bilingual, monolingual: · Nadia speaks six languages.speak French/Japanese/Russian etc · Is there anyone here who can speak Arabic?
► know to be able to speak, read, and understand some of a particular foreign language: · I know enough Italian to travel around there.· Do you know any Polish?
► fluent very good at speaking a foreign language, so that you can speak it quickly without stopping and you understand it very well: fluent in English/German/Thai etc: · Applicants should be fluent in Cantonese.fluent French/Arabic/Japanese etc: · Ann speaks fluent Italian.
► bilingual able to speak two languages very well: · About 80 percent of the school's students are bilingual.
► multilingual able to speak several languages very well: · Many people who work at the European Parliament are multilingual.
► speaker someone who can speak a particular language: speaker of English/Russian/Arabic etc: · Speakers of Cantonese often cannot understand speakers of Mandarin.English/Spanish/Urdu etc speaker: · The hotel has two English speakers on its staff.native speaker (=learnt a particular language as their first language as a child): · All our English teachers are native speakers.
WORD SETS► Languagesaccented, adjectiveAfrikaans, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounArabic, nounBengali, nounbilingual, adjectiveCantonese, nounChinese, nounconversant, adjectivecreole, nounDanish, noundialect, noundictation, noundirect method, noundub, verbDutch, nounEnglish, nounEsperanto, nounFarsi, nounFlemish, nounfluent, adjectiveFrancophone, adjectiveFranglais, nounFrench, adjectiveGaelic, nounGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGreek, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHindi, nounIndo-European, adjectiveItalian, nounItalo-, prefixJapanese, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectivelinguist, nounlinguistics, nounMandarin, nounMaori, nounmodern language, nounmonolingual, adjectivemother tongue, nounmultilingual, adjectivenative speaker, nounoral, nounpatois, nounPersian, nounPolish, adjectivePortuguese, nounRomance language, nounRomany, nounRussian, nounSanskrit, nounsecond language, nounSemitic, adjectivesign, nounsign, verbsign language, nounSinhalese, nounSpanish, nounspeak, verb-speak, suffixspeaker, nounSwedish, nountransliterate, verbTurkish, nounUrdu, nounusage, nounvernacular, nounvocabulary, nounWelsh, noun
the problems of a multilingual classroom a multilingual phrasebook—multilingualism noun [uncountable]