Word Meanings - DIALECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South. 2. The form of speech of a limited region
Additional info about word: DIALECT
1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South. 2. The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned. In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language. Earle. could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. Prescott. Syn. -- Language; idiom; tongue; speech; phraseology. See Language, and Idiom.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIALECT)
- Language
- Speech
- talk
- conversation
- dialect
- discourse
- tongue
- diction
- phraseology
- articulation
- accents
- vernacular
- expression
Related words: (words related to DIALECT)
- SPEECHLESS
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n. - TONGUELET
A little tongue. - SPEECHIFYING
The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold. - TONGUE-SHELL
Any species of Lingula. - SPEECHFUL
Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious. - VERNACULAR
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the - DISCOURSE
fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range - DICTION
Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. His - SPEECHIFY
To make a speech; to harangue. - TONGUESTER
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson. - DISCOURSER
1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne. - DIALECTAL
Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant. - TONGUED
Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne. - TONGUE-TIED
1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak. - SPEECHIFICATION
The act of speechifying. - TONGUE-PAD
A great talker. - TONGUE-SHAPED
Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf. - EXPRESSIONAL
Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin. - EXPRESSIONLESS
Destitute of expression. - CONVERSATIONIST
One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron. - SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. - OVERLANGUAGED
Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell. - ABARTICULATION
Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe. - HONEY-TONGUED
Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak. - SHRILL-TONGUED
Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak. - NONVERNACULAR
Not vernacular. A nonvernacular expression. Sir W. Hamilton. - ADDER'S-TONGUE
A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray. - LONG-TONGUE
The wryneck. - INARTICULATION
Inarticulateness. Chesterfield. - PLEASANT-TONGUED
Of pleasing speech. - TRUMPET-TONGUED
Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech. - CONTRADICTION
1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak. 2. Direct opposition