Noun
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 dictionarySpace 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