multilingual

«multilingual» in Mova's school dictionary: Able to speak or use several languages — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (multilingual; more multilingual); noun (a multilingual — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) Able to speak or use several languages. tree →

2) Written in or using several languages, as in "a multilingual sign" or "a multilingual dictionary". tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in language lessons and everyday life: many children are multilingual, speaking one language at home and another at school. Airports, museums and hospitals use multilingual signs. Phrases: "multilingual family", "multilingual school".

examples

• My cousin is multilingual; she speaks English, Polish and Spanish. tree →
• The airport signs are multilingual. tree →
• Many children in Ireland are bilingual or multilingual. tree →
• Our school library has multilingual books. tree →
• Being multilingual can help you get a job abroad. tree →
• The museum gave us a multilingual guide. tree →
• Switzerland is a multilingual country with four official languages. tree →

note

"Bilingual" means two languages, "trilingual" three, "multilingual" several or many. "Monolingual" means only one. "Lingual" comes from Latin "lingua" (tongue, language).

In the corpora

• Many people in the world grow up bilingual (speaking two languages) or multilingual (speaking several).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «multilingual» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.