heteroglot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a vibrating reed that is made from a different material than the instrument itself and is often removable.
noun
A mixture of multiple worldviews.
noun
One of a multiplicity of languages; dialect.
Example Sentences
- "The more specific definition will become useful when we discuss the earliest manifestations of the eighteenth- century clarinet and distinguish these from the closest relative of the clarinet — the chalumeau with a heteroglot reed."
- "Depending on whether the reeds are single or double, slit from the pipe itself or inserted separately the bagpipe is an idioglot, a heteroglot, or mixed."
- "Some reed-pipes are made not with what is termed an 'idioglot reed' - one sliced from the reed or cane material of the tube itself - but from a 'heteroglot reed', in which the vibrating reed is a separate sliver of reed or other suitable material, these days including plastic tied over an aperture in a reed-bearing mouthpiece."
- "Any existent language system is first and foremost a heteroglot entity, stratified according to the actually existent social diversity of speech types (dialects, jargons, generic languages and so on)."
- "A heteroglot novel (or 'novelistic hybrid'), he says, is 'an artistically organized system for bringing different languages in contact with one another."
- "This situation, however, is in sharp contrast with the findings of ethnographic research that reconstruct a discontinuity between monoglot language policy set up in education and heteroglot language repertoires brought along by immigrant minority pupils."
Etymology
From hetero- + -glot.