All 6 Uses of
polyglot
in
Dracula
- I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd, so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out.
p. 12.4polyglot = many languages
- The captain swear again, polyglot, and the thin man make him bow, and thank him, and say that he will so far intrude on his kindness as to come aboard before the sailing.
p. 338.4polyglot = in many languages
- The captain swore polyglot, very polyglot, polyglot with bloom and blood, but he could do nothing.
p. 338.7 *
- The captain swore polyglot, very polyglot, polyglot with bloom and blood, but he could do nothing.
p. 338.7polyglot = many languages
- The captain swore polyglot, very polyglot, polyglot with bloom and blood, but he could do nothing.
p. 338.7
- My friends of the thirst and the language that was of bloom and blood laughed, as they told how the captain's swears exceeded even his usual polyglot, and was more than ever full of picturesque, when on questioning other mariners who were on movement up and down the river that hour, he found that few of them had seen any of fog at all, except where it lay round the wharf.
p. 339.1polyglot = mixture of languages
Definition:
a person who speaks many languages; or something including many languages