many-tongued
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
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."
Etymology
From many + tongued.
Inflected Forms
more many-tongued (comparative)
most many-tongued (superlative)