Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "United Nations translator, e.g ", 8 letters:
polyglot

Alternative clues for the word polyglot

Word definitions for polyglot in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computing , a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages , which performs the same operations or output independent of the programming language used to compile or interpret it. Generally polyglots ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Greek polyglottos "speaking many languages," literally "many-tongued," from polys "many" (see poly- ) + glotta , Attic variant of glossa "language," literally "tongue" (see gloss (n.2)). As a noun from 1640s.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polyglot \Pol"y*glot\, n. One who speaks several languages. [R.] ``A polyglot, or good linguist.'' --Howell. A book containing several versions of the same text, or containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the Scriptures ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Versed in, or speaking, many languages. 2 Containing, or made up of, several languages. 3 Comprising various linguistic groups n. 1 One who masters, notably speaks, several languages. 2 A publication containing several versions of the same text, or ...

Usage examples of polyglot.

The computer probably believed Parrah did not speak polyglot, and letting it learn otherwise might well be a serious tactical error.

He wasted no time in making the rounds of the hotels, back street drinking dens and boarding houses used by the polyglot collection of men from Asia and the Pacific who worked the pearling fleets.

In place of the Yang Diamond sat a polyglot, polyfunctional melange of industries, the Hong Kong of the 26th century.

The blood and substance of many races, Negro, Polynesian, Mountain Mongol, Desert Nomad, Polyglot Near East, Indian -- races as yet unconceived and unborn, combinations not yet realized pass through your body.

The blood and substance of many races, Negro, Polynesian, Mountain Mongol, Desert Nomad, Polyglot Near East, Indian, races as yet unconceived and unborn, passes through the body.

A pearl of an agent - totally unmercenary - polyglot - a natural philosopher with innumerable contacts among the learned abroad - a man with a profession that introduced him everywhere - a physician is welcome everywhere - and a Catholic, which is such a recommendation in the greater part of the world.

Cardinal Ximenes in the fifth volume of the Complutensian Polyglot, which did not appear until 1522.

The Complutensian Polyglot, as it was thence named, was published in six volumes, four devoted to the Old Testament, one to the New Testament, and one to a Hebrew lexicon and grammar.

The Hebrew Massoretic text of the Old Testament was printed by Gerson Ben Mosheh at Brescia in 1494, and far more elaborately in the first four volumes of the Complutensian Polyglot.

Even by the editors of the Complutensian Polyglot the Vulgate was regarded with such favor that, being printed between the Hebrew and Greek, it was compared by them to Christ crucified between the two thieves.

Erasmus and Froben knew that the Complutensian Polyglot was in the works, and so they made haste to publish a Greek text as quickly as possible, although other obligations prevented Erasmus from taking up the task seriously until July of 1515.

In particular, Stunica, one of the chief editors of the Complutensian Polyglot, went public with his defamation of Erasmus and insisted that in future editions he return the verse to its rightful place.

Miriam had asked me about Lennie, it had been in breathless terms-Lennie, lassoer of asteroids, the man who had grabbed an Apollo-Amor body using Russian boosters and a polyglot crew.

Crew was the usual polyglot bunch, in this case chiefly Pakis and Koreans.

The two cyborgs, working together, would then question the inhabitants in either polyglot or Russian.