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Synonyms for patois
ˈpæt wɑ, ˈpɑ twɑ, pæˈtwɑ; ˈpæt wɑz, ˈpɑ twɑz, pæˈtwɑzpa·tois
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patois
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, dialect, diction, expression, idiom, language, mother tongue, speech, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary
Princeton's WordNet
slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacularnoun
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
"they don't speak our lingo"
Synonyms:
cant, slang term, bevel, slang, slang expression, vernacular, argot, pious platitude, lingo, camber, buzzword, jargon, chamfer, bank, jargoonpatoisnoun
a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
patoisnoun
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[Fr.] rustic or provincial dialect
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#875 | bank | |
#2553 | expression | |
#2557 | speech | |
#6177 | tongue | |
#7071 | cant | |
#8447 | vocabulary | |
#18580 | slang | |
#18667 | jargon | |
#23104 | dialect | |
#25509 | lingo | |
#32788 | vernacular | |
#36510 | bevel | |
#37219 | idiom | |
#43938 | diction | |
#47108 | camber | |
#49557 | buzzword | |
#66851 | barbarism | |
#123195 | chamfer | |
#126869 | patois | |
#146043 | argot |
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Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.
This book is startling in its range of voices and registers, running from the patois of the street posse to The Book of Revelation, it is a representation of political times and places, from the CIA intervention in Jamaica to the early years of crack gangs in New York and Miami.
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