A person who speaks more than one language.

synonym: linguist.

Roget 522: interpretation, definition; explanation, explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning etc. 516.    translation; rendering, rendition; redition^†; literal translation, free translation; key; secret; clew etc. (indication) 550; clavis^†, crib, pony, trot [U.S.].    exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary; inference etc. (deduction) 480; illustration, exemplification; gloss, annotation, scholium^†, note; elucidation, dilucidation^†; eclaircissement [Fr.], mot d'enigme [Fr.].    [methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology [Med.], semiology, semeiology^†, semiotics; metoposcopy^†, physiognomy; paleography etc. (philology) 560; oneirology acception^†, acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection, construction, version.    equivalent, equivalent meaning etc. 516; synonym; paraphrase, metaphrase^†; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary etc. 562; polyglot.    ... show more

Dutch: linguïst, polyglotte, talenkenner, veeltalige, meertalige, polyglot, meertalig
Polish: poliglota

Having a command of or composed in many languages.

Roget 15: differing etc. v.; different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified; diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform etc. 81; daedal^†.    other, another, not the same; unequal etc. 28.    unmatched; widely apart, poles apart, distinctive; characteristic, discriminative, distinguishing.    incommensurable, incommensurate.    ... show more

Roget 522: explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical^†; construable.    polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic^†; consignificative^†, synonymous; equivalent etc. 27.    ... show more

Roget 560: lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot^†, hexaglot^†, polyglot; literary.