Definition of Dialect

Dialect

Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

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.

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Dialect Quotations

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Doris Lessing

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Mason Cooley

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
Emily Carr

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
Madeleine Stowe

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

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.
William Labov

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.
Martin Henderson

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.
Henry Sweet

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Dialect Translations

dialect in Danish is dialekt
dialect in Dutch is tongval, dialect
dialect in French is dialecte
dialect in German is Diaklekt
dialect in Italian is dialetto
dialect in Spanish is dialecto

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