uniglot

comparative more uniglot · superlative most uniglot

1. monoglot

   In such a situation there would be a danger of alienating one linguistic group by a uniglot language policy.

   1956, The Educand, number 3, University of Western Australia, page 55

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   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.

   1917, John H. Finley, “New York: A Tale of Two Cities”, in American Magazine, volume 83, Colver Publishing House, page 39

   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.

   2005, Jan S. Prybyla, The American Way of Peace: an Interpretation^([64]), University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 64

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1. monoglot

   'Wow, a true polyglot. I'm still a struggling uniglot.'

   2002, Susannah M. Smith, How the Blessed Live^([99]), Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 99

   Synonyms: monoglot, monolinguist, unilinguist