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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
the promotional team for the new computer used a dialect full of acronyms that the press found difficult to follow
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Recent Examples of dialect
India, of course, is not a monolithic place but a vast subcontinent containing 22 official languages, more than 1,000 dialects, and 28 diverse states.
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Reshma B, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2025
This phrase can roughly be defined as descriptive of a product that is designed to cater to a viewer from almost every demographic of India, a country with as many as 22 official languages, 2,000 dialects and 1.4 billion people.
—Vishal Menon, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
There’s no universal language—only tribal dialects.
—Shekar Natarajan, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Because the characters are speaking a very distinctive local dialect, and that’s, of course, completely lost in translation.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2025
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Reshma B, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2025
This phrase can roughly be defined as descriptive of a product that is designed to cater to a viewer from almost every demographic of India, a country with as many as 22 official languages, 2,000 dialects and 1.4 billion people.
—Vishal Menon, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
There’s no universal language—only tribal dialects.
—Shekar Natarajan, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Because the characters are speaking a very distinctive local dialect, and that’s, of course, completely lost in translation.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dialect
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The development of new terminology could impact biomarker development and the understanding of liver disease’s natural history, which took decades to establish.—
Suchandrima Bhowmik,
Health,
31 May 2025
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No new terminology or concepts eating up offseason hours.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
30 May 2025
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Photosynthesis was such a profound development; so were eukaryotes, nervous systems and language.—
Philip Ball,
Wired News,
8 June 2025
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The government's 2011 population census found that a little more than 10% of Indians fluently speak the language.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
8 June 2025
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Zimbabwe and South Africa share in Rhodes a common ancestor; in Ndebele a language with a close connection to Zulu (the most spoken language in South Africa); and the common visual vocabulary sometimes called Ndebele art.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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Of note is the incorporation of vocabulary from Ivan’s archaic Norm language, a special touch that entranced me.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
1 June 2025
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Today's teen slang might seem like complete gibberish, but you may be surprised by how many terms echo phrases from the past.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
3 June 2025
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This translates as: The banlieues influence Paris and Paris influences the world (Paname is French slang for the city).—
Tomás Hill López-Menchero,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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“Dialect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialect. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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