The ambassador was a polyglot and an expert on foreign affairs. From LearnThat.org.
A polyglot traveler. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
By the way, the term polyglot from its Greek roots literally means many tongues. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Python] Reference
Later he speaks to her in polyglot Chinook and insists she come home with him. From Wordnik.com. [“There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice.”] Reference
A polyglot is a speaker of two or more languages, and a hyperglot a speaker of six or more. From Wordnik.com. [Web Translations » Blog Archive » Language learning: how much is too much?] Reference
Cal Galbraith crossed over with great strides, angrily, and spoke to Madeline in polyglot Chinook. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife of the King] Reference
Joyce, living through the next decade in polyglot Trieste, finished the Portrait and began Ulysses in 1914. From Wordnik.com. [James Joyce] Reference
Being a polyglot is a good thing -- we are not language bigots. From Wordnik.com. [jobs.joelonsoftware.com] Reference
This is an essential, engaging discussion for those interested in learning more about JRuby and the trend toward what Ford calls polyglot programming. From Wordnik.com. [JRuby Podcast on JavaWorld] Reference
He'd got rid of his Luna accent, too, carefully cultivating an English one that was a kind of polyglot of cinema Cockney, late twentieth-century Transatlantic, and Liverpudlian. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
'polyglot' accent that does not identify them with one country. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
What a strange destiny for this encyclopedic, polyglot mind!. From Wordnik.com. [Bernard-Henri Lévy: Predrag Matvejevitch Must Not Go to Prison!] Reference
Background: Hungary was part of the polyglot Austro-Hungarian. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
He grafted a sort of Liberalism on to polyglot nationalities. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Grayan (A.) on Torri's polyglot edition of Gray's Elegy, 150. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Indonesia, a vast polyglot nation, has struggled to overcome the. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
From this polyglot environment, came his enduring interest in languages. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hampton: My Egyptian paradise] Reference
The diners at Valori's made up the first really polyglot assembly I had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
For the polyglot armies of Kassovitz's revolution, the common language is hip - hop. From Wordnik.com. [Toasting The 'Hood] Reference
That world seemed so different than the polyglot world in which I was raised in New York. From Wordnik.com. [Why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Still Speaks To Me] Reference
Hungary was part of the polyglot Austro-Hungarian Empire, which collapsed during World War I. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Here we encountered a polyglot major-domo, who spoke all languages of Europe indifferently ill. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Some restaurants, such as Barfly, offer polyglot menus, featuring food from just about everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Sushi Cordon Bleu?] Reference
But Obama had made up his mind that he wanted to move to a more urban, intense and polyglot place. From Wordnik.com. [When Barry Became Barack] Reference
On nearing The Bow the confusion ceased; the polyglot sounds were distinguishable only as a murmur. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
In a polyglot babble, soldiers shouted orders, cursed and prayed while shrapnel whined by their ears. From Wordnik.com. [Saddam's Last Stand] Reference
There were several who intimated that he go right in for grand polyglot opera and try and get hold of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
No use to call the cops -- there were too many uncertainties about the setup in wild, polyglot Pallastown. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
As Christmas approached they began to make acquaintances among the polyglot population of the neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
In a central area sixty feet in diameter tickets to every known point are offered to him by polyglot clerks. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
But Simon, the pop polyglot, has been so successful in his multimusical lives that he can afford to share the wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Homeward Bound] Reference
This teeming, polyglot country was to be a "Socialist, secular, democratic republic," as the 1949 Constitution put it. From Wordnik.com. [Holy War In India] Reference
The house or tent was filled in a short time, and the audience was treated to a polyglot entertainment of the most remarkable character. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
This foiled aspirant class of states is a polyglot group spanning the Caribbean, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Pain in the Middle] Reference
The last I had seen of Brunow was in the middle of a crowd, with whom he was exchanging polyglot congratulations in the height of good spirits and enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
But we were recognized in a moment, and in another moment were swept asunder from each other amid such a polyglot babel of voices as I had never heard before. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
So it comes as a mild surprise to see Price fumbling when he tries to sum up Manhattan's Lower East Side, the polyglot neighborhood where he set his latest novel, "Lush Life.". From Wordnik.com. [East Side Story] Reference
And, privately, even the IPO officials admitted that the numbers were easier to say and remember than the polyglot street names that had been tagged on by the General Assembly. From Wordnik.com. [The Penal Cluster] Reference
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