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What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
Branford Marsalis

Meaning of "dialect" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DIALECT

From Latin dialectus, from Greek dialektos speech, dialect, discourse, from dialegesthai to converse, from legein to talk, speak.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DIALECT

dialect  [ˈdaɪəˌlɛkt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIALECT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dialect is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIALECT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dialect

The term dialect is used in two distinct ways. One usage—the more common among linguists—refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class. A dialect that is associated with a particular social class can be termed a sociolect, a dialect that is associated with a particular ethnic group can be termed as ethnolect, and a regional dialect may be termed a regiolect or topolect. According to this definition, any variety of a language constitutes "a dialect", including any standard varieties. The other usage refers to a language that is socially subordinated to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not derived from it. In this sense, the standard language is not itself considered a dialect.

Definition of dialect in the English dictionary

The definition of dialect in the dictionary is a form of a language spoken in a particular geographical area or by members of a particular social class or occupational group, distinguished by its vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Other definition of dialect is a form of a language that is considered inferior.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIALECT


acrolect
ˈækrəˌlɛkt
collect
kəˈlɛkt
complect
kəmˈplɛkt
deflect
dɪˈflɛkt
deselect
ˌdiːsɪˈlɛkt
elect
ɪˈlɛkt
genuflect
ˈdʒɛnjʊˌflɛkt
idiolect
ˈɪdɪəˌlɛkt
inflect
ɪnˈflɛkt
intellect
ˈɪntɪˌlɛkt
neglect
nɪˈɡlɛkt
nonelect
ˌnɒnɪˈlɛkt
pre-select
ˌpriːsɪˈlɛkt
prelect
prɪˈlɛkt
recollect
ˌrɛkəˈlɛkt
reflect
rɪˈflɛkt
reselect
ˌriːsɪˈlɛkt
select
sɪˈlɛkt
self-neglect
ˌsɛlfnɪˈɡlɛkt
sociolect
ˈsəʊsɪəʊˌlɛkt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIALECT

dial.
dialect atlas
dialect coach
dialect geographer
dialect geography
dialect survey
dialectal
dialectally
dialectic
dialectical
dialectical materialism
dialectical materialist
dialectically
dialectician
dialecticism
dialectics
dialectological
dialectologically
dialectologist
dialectology

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIALECT

affect
basilect
benign neglect
connect
correct
direct
effect
expect
free-select
grapholect
object
perfect
predilect
preelect
president-elect
project
protect
re-elect
subdialect
unilateral neglect

Synonyms and antonyms of dialect in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DIALECT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dialect» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of dialect

Translation of «dialect» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIALECT

Find out the translation of dialect to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dialect from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dialect» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

方言
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dialecto
570 millions of speakers

English

dialect
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बोली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لَهْجَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

диалект
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dialeto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উপভাষা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dialecte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dialek
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dialekt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

方言
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

방언
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dialect
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiếng địa phương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பேச்சுவழக்கில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोटभाषा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

diyalekt
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dialetto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dialekt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

діалект
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dialect
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διάλεκτος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dialek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dialekt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dialekt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dialect

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIALECT»

The term «dialect» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.303 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of dialect
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIALECT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dialect» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dialect» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dialect

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10 QUOTES WITH «DIALECT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dialect.
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Jon M. Chu
Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.
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Kim Dickens
I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.
3
Mamie Gummer
My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.
4
Martin Henderson
The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
5
Eric Kandel
My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.
6
William Labov
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
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Branford Marsalis
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
8
Audra McDonald
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.
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Audra McDonald
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to. It has a much more percussive rhythm to it.
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John McWhorter
It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIALECT»

Discover the use of dialect in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dialect and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect
Robert Burns. Tarrow, to murmur at one's allowance Thowless, flack, pithless Thack an' raep, all kinds of necessaries, particularly clothes Thowe, thaw Tirl, to knock gently, to uncover Toyte, to walk like old age Trashtrie, trash W. Scawl ...
Robert Burns, 1786
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Second Dialect Acquisition
These are some of the questions Jeff Siegel examines in this book, which focuses specifically on second dialect acquisition (SDA). Siegel surveys a wide range of studies that throw light on SDA.
Jeff Siegel, 2010
3
Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary
Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or place names ...
Stephen Calt, 2009
4
Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
In their introduction to the volume, Katherine Wyly Mille and Michael B. Montgomery set the text in its sociolinguistic context, explore recent developments in the celebration of Gullah culture, and honor Turner with a recounting of his ...
Lorenzo Dow Turner, 1949
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A Coptic grammar: with chrestomathy and glossary : Sahidic ...
Layton avoids all jargon and non-standard legal, scientific or magical texts, in order to provide a carefully explained grammar that is easy to use.
Bentley Layton, 2004
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From Dialect to Standard: English in England 1154-1776
Looks at the evolution of the English language.
Hans Frede Nielsen, 2005
7
A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect
The Lexicon gives students the help they need to read Homer extensively, with pleasure , and with the fewist possible obsticles.
Richard John Cunliffe, 1963
8
Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change
In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically localized dialects of North American English are increasingly diverging from one another ...
William Labov, 2012
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The Hakka Dialect: A Linguistic Study of Its Phonology, ...
A Linguistic Study of Its Phonology, Syntax and Lexicon Mantaro J. Hashimoto. Table 28 The rising feature was observed in a sandhi form of 413. vv tone dialect >^ 1 2 3 4 5 6 i /55/ /ll/ /31/ /53/ /l/ /s/ ii /44/ /ll/ /31/ /52/ (/42/) /21/ (/I/) /4/ (/5/) iii /44/  ...
Mantaro J. Hashimoto, 2010
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The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and ...
"Readers [will] be hard-pressed to deny North's revisionary insight: black dialect as performance is an unrecognized bridge between modernism and the Harlem Renaissance.
Michael North, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIALECT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dialect is used in the context of the following news items.
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The New York Stock Exchange goes down: inside the dystopian …
I think I make out his local dialect: he wants my spleen, to sell it, and get money, and then give it to his Pro Domme. Perhaps she might love him ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Google showed women ads for lower-paying jobs | Fusion
... discriminating based on factors such as accent and dialect and instead choosing candidates whose voices sound like the cliche of success. «Fusion, Jul 15»
3
History of the word 'bad', Chp 2, Lunatics and Hermaphrodites …
The English Dialect Dictionary by Joseph Wright isolates the following senses of bad as they occur in regional speech: “profligate, tyrannical, ... «OUPblog, Jul 15»
4
In & Out: TV celebs onboard, quit or kicked out - The Times of India
Avinesh is also working on his diction to get the dialect right. He says, "I have to speak in chaste Hindi. This is not like a regular daily soap, where we indulge in ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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Geordie: The Musical – and a Texas ex-pat's journey home to South …
“The dialect that we speak here was largely beaten out of us when we were kids, which is a shame,” he says, “Our dialect is older than the ... «Shields Gazette, Jul 15»
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'Remember your roots': Pope goes off-the-cuff to priests, religious
“It's sad when priests or religious forget their local dialect, or don't want to speak them anymore – it means they've forgotten where they came ... «Catholic World Report, Jul 15»
7
Play about couples: Looking at relationships - The Hindu
Using local Hyderabadi dialect, the short plays were hilarious and audience thoroughly enjoyed every bit of the play. It was witty and the ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
8
For Chinese Elders, Hospitals Innovate With Language, Staff--and …
Liu said the rehab center employs three Chinese physicians proficient in Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese dialect. These Chinese ... «New America Media, Jul 15»
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New music is hard to find so here's JOE's new song of the day (July …
The track itself is available to download for free from Lethal Dialect's Soundcloud page. See also: New music is hard to find so here's JOE's new song of the day ( ... «JOE, Jul 15»
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United by diversity – St Matthew's Primary School praised by Ofsted …
“Some speak two or three languages: they have got a local dialect, a home language and English. They are really clever and put us to shame.”. «Ipswich Star, Jul 15»

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