uniglot
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uniglot (comparative more uniglot, superlative most uniglot)
- monoglot
- 1917, John H. Finley, “New York: A Tale of Two Cities”, in American Magazine, volume 83, Colver Publishing House, page 39:
- Organically connected they together present the most important planetary-political and social laboratory for experimentation in bringing the peoples of the world into solution that has ever been contrived by the same Almighty Power who brought confusion upon a uniglot city and dispersed mankind, mumbling and jabbering, from the plains of Shinar.
- 1956, The Educand, number 3, University of Western Australia, page 55:
- In such a situation there would be a danger of alienating one linguistic group by a uniglot language policy.
- 2005, Jan S. Prybyla, The American Way of Peace: an Interpretation[64], University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 64:
- Third, the potential recruits to the communist cause who sprang up all over the West as part of the cultural shift were slipping through the party's fingers: the 68ers in search of more relevant fields to conquer; feminists; greenies; antiwar activists; practitioners of alternative sex; students who, in the name of equality or whatever, demanded free admission to, and exam-free exit from, universities, with a degree; seminarians turned worker priests; uniglot multicultural activists; and other youthful protest-prone contra-establishmentarians.
Noun
[edit]uniglot (plural uniglots)