Synonyms for dialect
ˈdaɪ əˌlɛktdi·alect

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1. dialect

   Language (French langage < Latin lingua, the tongue) signified originally expression of thought by spoken words, but now in its widest sense it signifies expression of thought by any means; as, the language of the eyes, the language of flowers. As regards the use of words, language in its broadest sense denotes all the uttered sounds and their combinations into words and sentences that human beings employ for the communication of thought, and, in a more limited sense, the words or combinations forming a means of communication among the members of a single nation, people, or race. Speech involves always the power of articulate utterance; we can speak of the language of animals, but not of their speech. A tongue is the speech or language of some one people, country, or race. A dialect is a special mode of speaking a language peculiar to some locality or class, not recognized as in accordance with the best usage; a barbarism is a perversion of a language by ignorant foreigners, or some usage akin to that. Idiom refers to the construction of phrases and sentences, and the way of forming or using words; it is the peculiar mold in which each language casts its thought. The great difficulty of translation is to give the thought expressed in one language in the idiom of another. A dialect may be used by the highest as well as the lowest within its range; a patois is distinctly illiterate, belonging to the lower classes; those who speak a patois understand the cultured form of their own language, but speak only the degraded form, as in the case of the Italian lazzaroni or the former negro slaves in the United States. Vernacular, from the Latin, has the same general sense as the Saxon mother tongue, of one's native language, or that of a people; as, the Scriptures were translated into the vernacular. Compare DICTION.

   Synonyms:
   barbarism, diction, expression, idiom, language, mother tongue, patois, speech, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary

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1. dialect

   Synonyms:
   provincialism, accent, idiom, tongue, language, speech, phraseology

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. dialect, idiom, accentnoun

   the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

   "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"

   Synonyms:
   phrase, artistic style, speech pattern, stress, set phrase, accent mark, accent, idiom, parlance, emphasis, phrasal idiom, idiomatic expression

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1. giria

   giria is a type of slang or dialect that a certain group of people use(moth)

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. dialectnoun

   Synonyms:
   provincialism, idiom

2. dialectnoun

   Synonyms:
   language, tongue, speech, form of speech

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1. List of paraphrases for "dialect":

   dialects

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1. Dialect

   Language vs. Dialect -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Language and Dialect.

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1. Elaine Higgleton:

   It's actually been around since the 1990s, and binge is an old Lincolnshire dialect word that made its way into common English in the 19th century, from a very slow start, it has really taken off exponentially as a term people are using every day.

2. Thomas Hardy:

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

3. Joshua Landis:

   Many of them are from rural Ethiopia, they speak Amharic and dialect, the vast majority were very slow to learn Hebrew because they were older. The younger generation does, but even 50 % of the younger generation don't graduate from high school.

4. Siya Kolisi:

   With the food packages that we drop off, we are adding messages in the local dialect of Xhosa, because this is predominately for the Xhosa areas, we put in instructions there for the masks - all in Xhosa - on how to put it on... But the most important is this : if you want people to stay home, tell them why. You can't just tell someone to stay home and not give them anything.

5. Sam Elliott:

   I think I grew up thinking about my voice as kind of funny because it had this Southwest dialect to it. I sounded very much like my mom in terms of the dialect, i knew that through this years, particularly as I grew older, that I developed this different sound. So I guess I knew at some point before I got into the business that my voice was going to be part of it.