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many-tongued

many-tongued adjective: having many tongues.

Adjective

many-tongued (comparative more many-tongued, superlative most many-tongued)

  1. Having many tongues.
  2. Represented by multiple languages; multilingual.
    • The many-tongued inhabitants have the many-tongued Book; and―glad thought―it speaks one great saving truth to all; […]1884, William Keddie, editor, The Sabbath school magazine
    • 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.1888, Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine, volume 23, page 154

Examples of many-tongued in a sentence

  • Universal humanity bows before the throne of Omniscient sympathy, of Omnipresent beneficence, of Omnipotent goodness Many named by the many-tongued inhabitants of earth, […]1890, G. Whitfield Ray, The Masonic Review, volume 7, page 12:
  • The Buenos Ayres of 1889 was a strange place, with its long, narrow streets, its peculiar stores and many-tongued inhabitants.1915, George Whitfield Ray, Through Five Republics on Horseback, page 21:
  • 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”.2005, Wendy W. Walters, At Home In Diaspora: Black International Writing, page 119:
  • 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.2021, Johanna Chovanec, Olof Heilo, Narrated Empires:

Forms of many-tongued

comparativemore many-tongued
superlativemost many-tongued

Origin of many-tongued

From many + tongued.

Questions about many-tongued

What does many-tongued mean?
Many-tongued means having many tongues.
How do you use many-tongued in a sentence?
Universal humanity bows before the throne of Omniscient sympathy, of Omnipresent beneficence, of Omnipotent goodness Many named by the many-tongued inhabitants of earth, […]
What part of speech is many-tongued?
Many-tongued is an adjective.

Words near many-tongued in the dictionary

  1. many-sorted logics
  2. many-splendored
  3. many-stemmed
  4. many-to-many
  5. many-to-one
  6. many-tongued
  7. many-valued logic
  8. many-worlds interpretation
  9. manya
  10. Manyagao
  11. Manyas shemaya

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