Dialect - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈdaɪəlekt|
Brit.
|ˈdaɪəlekt|
noun
- the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people (syn: accent, idiom)
the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy
it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy
Extra examples
They speak a southern dialect of French.
The author uses dialect in his writing.
The play was hard to understand when the characters spoke in dialect.
Her cousins were babbling in an unfamiliar dialect.
This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect
The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect
Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times
Word forms
noun
singular: dialect
plural: dialects
singular: dialect
plural: dialects
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