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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7189 COCA: 10722

dialect

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
dialect /ˈdajəˌlɛkt/ noun
plural dialects
dialect
/ˈdajəˌlɛkt/
noun
plural dialects
Learner's definition of DIALECT
: a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area and that uses some of its own words, grammar, and pronunciations方言;地方话;土话
[count]
[noncount]

— dialectal

/ˌdajəˈlɛktl̟/ adjective
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7189 COCA: 10722

dialect

noun

di·​a·​lect ˈdī-ə-ˌlekt How to pronounce dialect (audio)
often attributive
1
linguistics
a
: a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language
the Doric dialect of ancient Greek
a dialect of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong
b
: one of two or more cognate (see cognate entry 1 sense 3a) languages
French and Italian are Romance dialects
c
: a variety of a language used by the members of a group
such dialects as politics and advertising Philip Howard
d
: a variety of language whose identity is fixed by a factor other than geography (such as social class)
spoke a rough peasant dialect
f
: a version of a computer programming language
2
: manner or means of expressing oneself : phraseology
dialectal adjective
dialectally adverb

Example Sentences

They speak a southern dialect of French. The author uses dialect in his writing. The play was hard to understand when the characters spoke in dialect.
Recent Examples on the Web Tausz Ronai — who is fluent in Italian, Fiumano (a dialect of Venetian), Hungarian, German, French, English and Portuguese — would become an accomplished architect and write three books, including one on her life story and another for children. Marcus M. Gilban, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022 Officially, Beijing designates Cantonese as a dialect. Mary Hui, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2022 Svevo spoke Triestine, a dialect that borrows from Slovenian, Greek, and German, and is unintelligible to other Italians. Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, 24 Aug. 2022 Each first-person story is written in vivid dialect, through which the characters’ backgrounds and personalities—and to an affecting degree, their destinies—are revealed. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 The Presbyterian church in Taiwan is known for its support of pro-independence causes, and the Laguna Woods congregation conducts services in the Taiwanese dialect, rather than Mandarin. Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022 The locals speak in a weird German-sounding dialect and eat apple Strüdel and Canederli (knödel) dumplings. Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022 The children sing songs in an old African American dialect of English that can be found in Negro spirituals. Scott Dalton, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022 Among the middle-class families were a few garrulous groups of men with tattooed arms, roaring genially in dialect and dispatching huge plates of calamari with messy gusto. Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectus, from Greek dialektos conversation, dialect, from dialegesthai to converse — more at dialogue

First Known Use

1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of dialect was in 1566
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 7189 COCA: 10722
dialect

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + DIALECT | DIALECT + NOUN ADJECTIVElocal, native, regional當地/本地/區域方言rural, urban鄉村/城市方言non-standard非規範方言northern, southern, etc.北方、南方等方言American, English, Italian, etc.美國、英國、意大利等方言Black黑人方言VERB + DIALECTspeak, speak in說方言DIALECT + NOUNform, word方言形式/詞語speaker講方言的人group方言群體the two major dialect groups of Inuit伊努伊特語的兩個主要方言群體poetry方言詩歌

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