Heteroglot

Quick meaning: Heteroglot is an adjective meaning (music) Having a vibrating reed that is made from a different material than the instrument itself and is often removable.

Meaning

(music) Having a vibrating reed that is made from a different material than the instrument itself and is often removable.

More Meanings

1. Involving or containing multiple languages, dialects, or idiolects.
2. (more generally) Culturally diverse; Involving multiple points of view.
3. An amalgam of multiple languages or dialects.
4. A mixture of multiple worldviews.
5. One of a multiplicity of languages; dialect.
6. A person who speaks a different language.

Example Sentences

A heteroglot novel (or 'novelistic hybrid'), he says, is 'an artistically organized system for bringing different languages in contact with one another.

Depending on whether the reeds are single or double, slit from the pipe itself or inserted separately the bagpipe is an idioglot, a heteroglot, or mixed.

This is essential in plural, heteroglot communities, if the school is to be inclusive, and is essential in those school subjects which are contentious and contended.

Despite the length and interiority of many contemporaneous novels, their heteroglot dialogue was far more flexible and expressive of a much wider range of social classes and ethnic types.

Word Forms

• heteroglots

Antonyms for heteroglot

Common opposites include idioglot.

Related Words

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