Examples of polyglot in a Sentence
Jody García, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
Enter Email Sign Up The composer has always been a genre-blender, and the musicians’ polyglot nature plays well with his strengths.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
Dance polyglots abound in the entertainment industry.
—Margaret Fuhrer, New York Times, 19 June 2023
Diaspora Problems represents the blossoming of all their ideas — a polyglot of genres representing a new musical language unique to Soul Glo.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
The latest venture from the polyglot artist, fashion designer and first-time director aims to support and nurture fellow directors breaking into the industry, and more specifically, looking to make their first feature film.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
Its location, in one L.A.’s most polyglot corners, has been a mixed blessing.
—Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
The veteran globetrotter and expert polyglot takes us on a quest to excavate the roots of African descendants in countries around Latin America, starting with San Jose, Costa Rica, where the black natives built the country’s biggest infrastructure in the 1900s: the railroad.
—Marjua Estevez, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2020
The apex of the language gambit seems to be those amazing polyglots that know a dozen or dozens of languages.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
Ty, a British rapper known for a lyrically thoughtful, musically polyglot approach to hip-hop and for serving as a bridge between generations of British rap, died on May 7 in London.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 15 May 2020
Their politics are just one expression of that basic temperament—a temperament that might push them to live in polyglot cities, to hitchhike across Europe, to watch foreign-language films.
—Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 19 May 2020
When necessary, a translation service on speakerphone rounds out the polyglot medical chatter.
—David Montgomery, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2020
This is why the MIT study of living polyglot brains offers more promise.
—TheWeek, 22 Feb. 2020
Even Kabul, which struggles daily to keep the Taliban at bay, was in the 16th century a polyglot place that beguiled a young Babur.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
Donegal—that green archaism— and Manhattan in the nineteen-thirties, polyglot dynamo,
all that was great about the twentieth century
fermenting in its democratic casks.
—Campbell McGrath, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2020
Salazar’s heavy hand did not prevent a brisk business in books, newspapers, and magazines among the polyglot population of the city.
—Time, 3 Jan. 2020
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Word History
Noun
derivative of polyglot entry 2; (sense 2) in part after the Complutensian Polyglot, a multilingual printed edition of the Bible completed in 1517
Adjective
borrowed from Greek (Attic) polýglōssos, (non-Attic) polýglōttos "speaking with many tongues, conveying many messages, in many languages," from poly- poly- + -glōssos, -glōttos, adjective derivative of glôssa, glôtta "tongue, language" — more at gloss entry 3
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“Polyglot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polyglot. Accessed 27 Sep. 2023.
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