multilingual
adjective
(also mainlyUKmulti-lingual)uk/ˌmʌl.tiˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/us/ˌmʌl.tiˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/(ofpeopleorgroups)ableto use more than twolanguagesforcommunication, or (of a thing) written orspokenin more than two differentlanguages:
使用多种语言的;用多种语言表达的a multilingualonlinedictionary多语在线词典
He isreceivinglanguagelessonsat theclubso he canunderstandhis multi-lingual team-mates.
Thestateproducesmultilingualballotinformation.
Compare
bilingualadjective
monolingual
- They arekeentostafftheirbusinesseswith multilingualspeakers.
- Thehotelchainhaslauncheda multilingualuser-friendlymobilewebsite.
- There is usually multi-lingualsignageatairports.
Using other languages
- Anglocentric
- Anglocentrism
- anglophone
- bilingualism
- biliterate
- code switch
- linguist
- monolingual
- native speaker
- non-native
- non-native speaker
- non-speaker
- pinyin
- polyglot
- render
- rendering
- signer
- speaker
- target language
- translator