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Multilingual vs Polylingual - What's the difference?

multilingual | polylingual |

As adjectives the difference between multilingual and polylingual

is that multilingual is pertaining to multiple languages while polylingual is of or pertaining to multiple languages; multilingual.

multilingual

English

Adjective

(wikipedia multilingual) (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to multiple languages.
  • (of a person) able to communicate fluently in multiple languages

    • Related terms

    * language * multilingualism

    See also

    * polyglot

    polylingual

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or pertaining to multiple languages; multilingual
  • able to use multiple languages