dialect
51dialect — n. 1. Provincialism, idiom. 2. Language, tongue, speech, form of speech, phraseology, parlance …
52dialect — noun (C, U) a variety of a language spoken only in one area, in which words or grammar are slightly different from other forms of the same language compare accent 1 (1), idiolect …
53dialect — n 1. tongue, speech, speech pattern, idiom, regionalism, localism, provincialism, accent; vernacular, colloquialism, patois, pidgin, pigeon, lingua franca. 2. jargon, cant, argot, parlance, lingo, slang …
54dialect — [ˈdaɪəˌlekt] noun [C/U] a way of speaking a language that is used only in a particular area or by a particular group …
55dialect — Ano ōlelo o kekahi āina a i ole kekahi ano kanaka …
56dialect — n. 1 a form of speech peculiar to a particular region. 2 a subordinate variety of a language with non standard vocabulary, pronunciation, or grammar. Derivatives: dialectal adj. dialectology n. dialectologist n. Etymology: F dialecte or L… …
57Attic dialect — ▪ dialect Ancient Greek dialect that was the language of ancient Athens. Its closest relative was the Ionic dialect of Euboea. With the ascendance of the Athenian empire in the course of the 5th century BC, Attic became the most prestigious …
58Doric dialect — ▪ dialect also called West Greek, a dialect of Ancient Greek that in Mycenaean times was spoken by seminomadic Greeks living around the Pindus Mountains. After the Dorian migrations near the end of the 2nd millennium BC, Doric speaking… …
59Ionic dialect — ▪ dialect any of several Ancient Greek dialects spoken in Euboea, in the Northern Cyclades, and from approximately 1000 BC in Asiatic Ionia, where Ionian colonists from Athens founded their cities. Attic (Attic dialect) and Ionic dialects… …
60Aeolic dialect — ▪ dialect any of several dialects of Ancient Greek that were spoken in Thessaly, Boeotia, and, after approximately 1000 Bc in Asiatic Aeolis, including the island of Lesbos, where Aeolian colonists from the mainland founded their cities.… …
