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Synonyms for dialect
ˈdaɪ əˌlɛktdi·alect
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
dialect
Synonyms:
provincialism, accent, idiom, tongue, language, speech, phraseology
Princeton's WordNet
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
Editors Contribution
giria
giria is a type of slang or dialect that a certain group of people use(moth)
Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
dialectnoun
Synonyms:
provincialism, idiomdialectnoun
Synonyms:
language, tongue, speech, form of speech
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Dialect
Language vs. Dialect -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Language and Dialect.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#562 | language | |
#2553 | expression | |
#2557 | speech | |
#2989 | stress | |
#4487 | emphasis | |
#5017 | phrase | |
#6177 | tongue | |
#8447 | vocabulary | |
#8873 | accent | |
#23104 | dialect | |
#29699 | dialects | |
#32788 | vernacular | |
#37219 | idiom | |
#43938 | diction | |
#66851 | barbarism | |
#68313 | parlance | |
#84177 | phraseology | |
#126869 | patois | |
#220306 | provincialism |
How to use dialect in a sentence?
You lose languages, you lose dialect, you lose understanding, they've been through a very difficult process.
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.
From a content creation aspect, the No. 1 growing video content creation sector is East Asia and Thailand, if you can translate Mandarin, Cambodian, Thai and different languages in the Indian dialect that's another 3 billion people nobody's talking to because of the language barrier.
We need to be storytellers, and no matter what we look like on the outside, no matter our race, our nation, the color of our skin, our dialect, whether I'm tall or thin, whether I'm overweight or underweight, or my hair is whatever color, we really need to tell the story.
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.
Translations for dialect
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- دارجة, لهجة, عاميةArabic
- ləhcə, dialektAzerbaijani
- дыялектBelarusian
- диалектBulgarian
- dialecteCatalan, Valencian
- dialekt, nářečíCzech
- tafodiaithWelsh
- dialektDanish
- Mundart, DialektGerman
- διάλεκτοςGreek
- dialektoEsperanto
- dialectoSpanish
- گویش, لهجهPersian
- aluemurre, murreFinnish
- dialecte, patoisFrench
- dualchainntScottish Gaelic
- dialectoGalician
- ניבHebrew
- उपभाषाHindi
- nyelvjárásHungarian
- բարբառArmenian
- logat, dialekIndonesian
- mállýskaIcelandic
- dialettoItalian
- 弁, 方言Japanese
- დიალექტიGeorgian
- ប្រាក្រឹត, គ្រាមភាសាKhmer
- 사투리, 방언Korean
- زاراوKurdish
- оогонKyrgyz
- dialectos, dialectusLatin
- dialektas, tarmėLithuanian
- dialektsLatvian
- говор, наречје, дијалектMacedonian
- аялгууMongolian
- djalettMaltese
- dialectDutch
- dialektNorwegian
- dialècteOccitan
- narzecze, dialektPolish
- dialeto, dialectoPortuguese
- dialectRomanian
- говор, наречие, диалектRussian
- dijalekt, narečje, нарјечје, наречје, narječje, дијалектSerbo-Croatian
- dialekt, nárečieSlovak
- naréčjeSlovene
- dialektSwedish
- ภาษาถิ่นThai
- lehçeTurkish
- говір, діалект, наріччяUkrainian
- thổ ngưVietnamese
- dialegVolapük
- דיאַלעקטYiddish
- 方言Chinese
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