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Multilingual vs Trilingual - What's the difference?

multilingual | trilingual |

As adjectives the difference between multilingual and trilingual

is that multilingual is pertaining to multiple languages while trilingual is able to read or speak three languages.

As a noun trilingual is

a trilingual person.

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

    trilingual

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia trilingual) (en adjective)
  • Able to read or speak three languages.
  • Expressed or written in three languages.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trilingual person.

    • Related terms

    * trilingualism * trilingually

    See also

    * monolingual * bilingual * quadrilingual * multilingual * polyglot