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dialect

noun

1 dialect

The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people:
— The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.
— It has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy.

synonyms: accent, idiom.

Roget 560: language; phraseology etc. 569; speech etc. 582; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; ... show more

Roget 563: neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym; barbarism.    archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.    corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis.    ... show more

Dutch: mondaard, accent, dialect, patois, streektaal


Moby thesaurus: Acadian, Anglo-Indian, Brooklynese, Cajun, Canadian French, Cockney, French Canadian, Gullah, Midland, Midland dialect, New England dialect, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yankee, Yorkshire, accent, argot, brogue, bundle of isoglosses, burr, cant ... show more.

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