'Dialect' definitions:
Definition of 'dialect'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Dialect'
From: GCIDE
- Dialect \Di"a*lect\, n. [F. dialecte, L. dialectus, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to converse, discourse. See Dialogue.]
- 1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. [1913 Webster]
- This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language. --Earle. [1913 Webster]
- [Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. --Prescott.
- Syn: Language; idiom; tongue; speech; phraseology. See Language, and Idiom. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dialect'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Acadian,
- accent,
- Anglo-Indian,
- argot,
- brogue,
- Brooklynese,
- bundle of isoglosses,
- burr,
- Cajun,
- Canadian French,
- cant,
- choice of words,
- class dialect,
- Cockney,
- composition,
- dialect atlas,
- dialect dictionary,
- dialectal,
- diction,
- expression,
- formulation,
- French Canadian,
- grammar,
- Gullah,
- idiom,
- idiomatic,
- isogloss,
- jargon,
- language,
- langue,
- lingo,
- lingua,
- linguistic atlas,
- linguistic community,
- linguistic island,
- local,
- local dialect,
- localism,
- locution,
- Midland,
- Midland dialect,
- New England dialect,
- parlance,
- parole,
- patois,
- patter,
- Pennsylvania Dutch,
- personal usage,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- pidgin,
- pronunciation,
- provincial,
- provincialism,
- regional,
- regional accent,
- regionalism,
- rhetoric,
- slang,
- speech,
- speech community,
- subdialect,
- talk,
- tongue,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- verbiage,
- vernacular,
- wordage,
- wording,
- Yankee,
- Yorkshire
Words containing 'Dialect'
- Dialectal,
- Dialectic,
- Dialectical,
- Dialectically,
- Dialectics,
- Hellenistic dialect,
- Ionic dialect,
- aeolic dialect,
- arcadic dialect,
- beijing dialect,
- cantonese dialect,
- dialect atlas,
- dialect geography,
- dialectical materialism,
- doric dialect,
- eye dialect,
- flemish dialect,
- gheg dialect,
- hakka dialect,
- kuchean dialect,
- mandarin dialect,
- min dialect,
- shanghai dialect,
- tosk dialect,
- turfan dialect,
- wu dialect,
- yue dialect