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multilingualism

noun
/mʌltiˈlɪŋɡwəlɪzəm/CA

Etymology

From multilingual + -ism.

  1. learned borrowing from linguālis
  2. formed as multilingual — “multi- + lingual”
  3. formed as multilingualism — “multilingual + -ism”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being multilingual

    The condition of being multilingual; the ability to speak multiple languages.

    • This is, perhaps, where writing centers and composition studies are implicated most obviously into the conversation of language ideology, translingualism, and multilingualism.
    • Spielberg showed us, a nation historically obsessed with the idea of domination, that respect is a courageous choice and that multilingualism is our true color. It is who we are.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for multilingualism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA