Dialect



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• n. 方言
• ［英］ n. 方言 ( form of a language used in a part of a country )
• ［记］ dia+lect ( 讲) -> 对面讲话 -> 方言

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Usage: often attributive
• Etymology: Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectus, from Greek dialektos conversation, dialect, from dialegesthai to converse — more at dialogue
• Date: 1577
• 1.
  • 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>
  • b. one of two or more cognate 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 (as social class) <spoke a rough peasant dialect>
  • e. register 4c
  • f. a version of a computer programming language
• 2. manner or means of expressing oneself ; phraseology
• ? dialectal adjective
• ? dialectally adverb

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