Colloquial
11colloquial — adjective Date: 1751 1. of or relating to conversation ; conversational 2. a. used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation; also unacceptably informal b. using conversational style • …
12colloquial — adj. Colloquial is used with these nouns: ↑expression, ↑language, ↑phrase, ↑term, ↑usage …
13colloquial — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. idiomatic, informal, conversational, vernacular; chatty. See conversation, figurative. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. conversational, informal, vernacular, everyday, casual, idiomatic, nonliterary,… …
14colloquial — col|lo|qui|al [kəˈləukwiəl US ˈlou ] adj language or words that are colloquial are used mainly in informal conversations rather than in writing or formal speech >colloquially adv …
15colloquial — adjective language or words that are colloquial are used mainly in conversation rather than in writing or formal speech colloquially adverb …
16colloquial — adjective she just loved the colloquial expressions of her Southern in laws Syn: informal, conversational, everyday, nonliterary; unofficial, idiomatic, slangy, vernacular, popular, demotic Ant: formal …
17Colloquial Finnish — (suomen puhekieli) is the dialectless colloquial standard of the Finnish language. It is spoken in the Greater Helsinki region, and in urbanized areas in the Tavastian and Central Finland dialectal areas, such as the cities of Jyväskylä, Lahti,… …
18Colloquial language — Colloquial language, especially in philosophy of language, is natural language which, among other properties, uses colloquialisms. In the field of logical atomism, meaning is evaluated differently than with more formal propositions. See also… …
19colloquial discourse — index conversation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
20Colloquial Welsh morphology — The morphology of the Welsh language shows many characteristics perhaps unfamiliar to speakers of English or continental European languages like French or German, but has much in common with the other modern Insular Celtic languages: Irish,… …
