Meaning

Having many tongues..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having many tongues.
2. Represented by multiple languages; multilingual.

Example Sentences

The many-tongued inhabitants have the many-tongued Book; and―glad thought―it speaks one great saving truth to all; […]

In India he is popularly called "the many-tongued man of Lahore," on account of his ability to preach in nine or ten different languages.

Universal humanity bows before the throne of Omniscient sympathy, of Omnipresent beneficence, of Omnipotent goodness Many named by the many-tongued inhabitants of earth, […]

The Buenos Ayres of 1889 was a strange place, with its long, narrow streets, its peculiar stores and many-tongued inhabitants.

Though each singer speaks a different language, a harmony results, rather than fracture and fragmentation. This harmony signifies not only survival, but love—indeed that it must be love that enables survival against such odds. Phillips's most resonant evocation of this idea occurs as the final section of his 1993 novel, Crossing the River, where he describes this singing as “the many-tongued chorus of the common memory”.

The association was secretly a subversive society for it palimpsested onto the 'English-speaking' British Empire the federation of many-tongued nations meeting in Esperanto, resisting an Anglo-Saxon linguistic imperialism which sought to colonize other languages.

In the fourth part of this volume, 'Habsburg Press(ure): Reading Between the Lines of a Many-Tongued Journalism', the Habsburg Empire takes centre stage.

Lilies can be a many-tongued person that remains silent.

Word Forms

• more many-tongued
• most many-tongued

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