heteroglot noun 4adjective 3forms 1 noun4 •An amalgam of multiple languages or dialects.A plurality of voices, those of the author, narrators and characters, interact in a dialogue creating a heteroglot, a multi-languaged text. — 2002 •A mixture of multiple worldviews.As a result of this conflicted consumption, her production is also a site of contestation, a heteroglot of Shona and Western signs, along with signs of anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal struggle. — 2002 •One of a multiplicity of languages; dialect.For Bakhtin, language exists as a multi-voiced amalgam of social, political and professional dialects, or heteroglots. — 1999 •A person who speaks a different language.... is by contrast mighty even among these who speak other languages (the heteroglots) ; the former proved easier to dismantle than a spider's web whereas the latter has become hard as diamond. — 1984 adjective3 •Involving or containing multiple languages, dialects, or idiolects.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). — 1990 •Culturally diverse; Involving multiple points of view.This is essential in plural, heteroglot communities, if the school is to be inclusive, and is essential in those school subjects which are contentious and contended. — 2007 •Having a vibrating reed that is made from a different material than the instrument itself and is often removable.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. — 2000 formsheteroglots
