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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multilingual/#m1)

2) Written in or using several languages, as in "a multilingual sign" or "a multilingual dictionary". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multilingual/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multilingual/#x1)
- The airport signs are multilingual. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multilingual/#x2)
- Many children in Ireland are bilingual or multilingual. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multilingual/#x3)
- Our school library has multilingual books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multilingual/#x4)
- Being multilingual can help you get a job abroad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multilingual/#x5)
- The museum gave us a multilingual guide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multilingual/#x6)
- Switzerland is a multilingual country with four official languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multilingual/#x7)

### 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).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «multilingual» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multilingual/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.