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Definition 2025

multilingual

multilingual

English

Adjective

multilingual ‎(comparative more multilingual, superlative most multilingual)

Pertaining to multiple languages.
(of a person) able to communicate fluently in multiple languages

Related terms

Translations

pertaining to multiple languages

Arabic: مُتَعَدِّد اَللُّغَات ‎(mutaʿaddid al-luḡāt)
Basque: eleanitz (eu)
Catalan: multilingüe (ca), plurilingüe
Chinese:
Mandarin: 多種語言 (zh), 多种语言 (zh) ‎(duōzhǒngyǔyán), 多語, 多语 ‎(duōyǔ)
Czech: vícejazyčný m
Danish: flersproget
Dutch: meertalig (nl)
Finnish: monikielinen (fi)
French: plurilingue (fr), multilingue (fr)
German: vielsprachig (de), mehrsprachig (de); multilingual (de), polyglott (de), polyglottisch
Greek: πολύγλωσσος (el) ‎(polýglossos)
Hungarian: többnyelvű (hu)
Icelandic: fjöltyngdur (is)
Indonesian: multibahasa (id)
Italian: multilingue (it)
Japanese: 多言語 (ja) ‎(たげんご, tagengo)

Korean: 다중언어 ‎(dajungeoneo)
Latvian: daudzvalodīgs (lv)
Macedonian: повеќејазичен m ‎(poveḱejázičen)
Navajo: díkwííshį́į́ saad yidiitsʼaʼ
Norwegian:

Bokmål: flerspråklig

Nynorsk: fleirspråkleg
Persian: چند زبانه
Polish: wielojęzyczny (pl) m
Portuguese: multilíngue (pt) m, f
Russian: многоязы́чный (ru) ‎(mnogojazýčnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: ioma-chànaineach
Spanish: multilingüe (es), plurilingüe (es) m
Swedish: flerspråkig (sv), mångspråkig
Telugu: బహుభాషా ‎(bahubhāṣā)
Turkish: çokdilli (tr)

able to communicate fluently in multiple languages

Albanian: shumëgjuhësh
Basque: eleanitz (eu)
Catalan: multilingüe (ca), plurilingüe
Finnish: monikielinen (fi)
French: polyglotte (fr)
German: mehrsprachig (de); polyglott (de)
Greek: πολύγλωσσος (el) ‎(polýglossos)
Hungarian: poliglott

Macedonian: повеќејазичен m ‎(poveḱejázičen)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: flerspråklig

Nynorsk: fleirspråkleg
Polish: wielojęzyczny (pl) m
Portuguese: poliglota (pt)
Russian: многоязы́чный (ru) ‎(mnogojazýčnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: ioma-chànaineach
Turkish: çokdilli (tr)

Noun

multilingual ‎(plural multilinguals)

A polyglot