dialect

Noun

Meaning

Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

idiom accent language speech tongue vernacular phraseology patois regional language creole jin patter cant talk register
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Antonyms

latin hush standard formal hearing rhetoric
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Hypernyms

non-standard speech

Hyponyms

patois eye dialect

Related terms

dialectical dialectics idiolect dialectician dialectally regiolect

Phrases with the word

african american dialect african american vernacular dialect norwegian dialect norwegian rural dialect dutch dialect wu dialect

Anagrams

citadel deltaic edictal lactide dactile

Examples

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. Doris Lessing

He liked the style, that wry gallows humor armed with the semblance of omniscience; a most serviceable style it was, the dialect of the initiated, protecting them from their disillusionments, their fears, their well-concealed childish hopes. Imre Kertész

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. Mason Cooley

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. Thomas Hardy

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America. Branford Marsalis

Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect. Russian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

dialdehyde dialdehydic dialdose dialect atlas dialect blending dialect continuum