If the language you speak in your region is different in vocabulary, grammar and accent than the main form of the language, you speak a dialect. If your cousin in rural Arkansas can't understand your jokes, blame it on differences in dialect.
Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
Noun
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"
n.
Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue;
form of speech.
n.
The form of speech of a limited region or people, as
distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or
subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities
or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of
Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
Dialect
This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world.2.
In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language.
[Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect.
Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
Usage Examples
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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