panlingual

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adjective

Involving or encompassing all languages.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivepanlingual (not comparable)
  1. not comparableInvolving or encompassing all languages.

    […] it is not interlingual translation that betrays the stutterer; it is, rather, panlingual stuttering.

    2005, Marc Shell, Stutter, page 51
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    On the other hand, however, Lingua's scholarly audience could have responded to this ostentatious parade of panlingual skill as a confirmation of their own erudition.

    1998, Jonathan Gil Harris, Foreign bodies and the body politic, page 112

    We spoke in a private panlingual gibberish. We were not German or European or English or Canadian; we were flesh detached from time and place.

    2007, Stephen Henigan, A Grave in the Air, page 32

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APA

panlingual. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panlingual

MLA

“panlingual.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panlingual. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “panlingual,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panlingual.

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