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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
multilingual
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a multilingual phrasebook
▪ Many people who work at the European Parliament are multilingual.
▪ The hotel has a multilingual staff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A particular priority is research on classroom interaction in multiethnic and multilingual classrooms. 10.
▪ In fact, well-educated, multilingual women from many different countries worked as international stewardesses.
▪ It offers multilingual and interdisciplinary curriculum at University degree level.
▪ Recent surveys including that carried out by the Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 have revealed the extent to which Britain is multilingual.
▪ Such a policy would be of especial benefit to bilingual or multilingual children.
▪ There is growing interest in multilingual thesauri for application in international information retrieval networks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
multilingual

also multi-lingual, 1838, from multi- + Latin lingua "language," literally "tongue" (see lingual). Related: Multilingually; multilingualism.

Wiktionary
multilingual

a. 1 Pertaining to multiple languages. 2 (context of a person English) able to communicate fluently in multiple languages

WordNet
multilingual

adj. using or knowing more than one language; "a multilingual translator"; "a multilingual nation" [ant: monolingual]

Usage examples of "multilingual".

I would consider a person who spoke both Navajo and Apache multidialectal, not multilingual.

She's a law school dropout, efficient, intelligent, computer literate, multilingual, empathic, diplomatic, moderately ambitious, extremely attractive, and devoutly gay.

I took the suggestion, knowing that there was little alternative, and went through a series of multilingual typing and translating tests at the foreign mission.