Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dialect
IPA transcription: [d'aɪəl,ɛkt]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dialect, idiom, accent
    Meaning: 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"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
Usage examples
  • I wish there was only one dialect all the same.
  • Senor Lopez first combats the idea that the living dialect of Peru is barbarous and fluctuating.
  • Who brought the dialect of Homer to America? or who took to Greece that of the Mayas? Greek is the offspring of the Sanscrit.
  • He abandoned the now familiar Ionic for a new dialect, and for a long time onward limited his reading almost entirely to the Gospels and Epistles in Griesbach's text.
  • A moral, philosophical discourse needs not enter into all these caprices of language, which are so variable in different dialects, and in different ages of the same dialect.
  • He had the hard features and athletic form said to be peculiar to his country, together with the national intonation and slow pedantic mode of expression, arising from a desire to avoid peculiarities of idiom or dialect.