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colloquial

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noun

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Recent Examples of colloquial
Adjective
Gorsuch used his short opinion on the dry topic of debt collection to declare a more colloquial style. Jill Barton, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025 What is a Green Beret? Green Beret is the colloquial name used for members of the U.S. Army Special Forces. Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025 Purple group — colloquial suffixes (CORE, GATE, MANIA, PILLED) No perfect game, but that's nine wins in a row. Kris Holt, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024 To push the colloquial gold envelope even further, Swift added a chain belt. Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 3 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for colloquial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colloquial
Adjective
  • There’s very few vernacular places left in America.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Villa Aalto, with its modest rooms, charming front portico, traditional hip roofline, and wooden beams, speaks to the easy sincerity of his early designs: vernacular elements at odds with the Modernist dogmas of the day.
    Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
  • You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • These open-branching shrubs make an informal hedge that requires little pruning.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Reznick and some former Video Game Writers Caucus members continue to hold informal group meetings.
    Simon Abrams, HollywoodReporter, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The crossings also have to be familiar words all the way across those entries.
    Deb Amlen, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Kaye’s version, if the full title isn’t clear enough, has a familiar outline: First-gen immigrants become parents in the West, hoping their sacrifices will be rewarded with a doctor or lawyer child; child goes another way; conflict ensues.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Ultimately, Andrews and his actors find Chekhov by abandoning the paraphernalia of the writer’s universe and groping, in their own idiom, across a perilously empty stage, toward one another.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Which is fitting for a composer who, even when developing a homegrown idiom of his own, was criticized for sounding too European.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The Retreat Linen Top and matching Mid-rise Shorts, both over 40 percent off, can be styled together for a polished resort outfit or worn separately with basics for casual, everyday wear.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2025
  • There are thousands of dresses for every attire, from outdoor garden weddings and casual beach nuptials to glamorous black tie affairs.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In British fashion parlance, the signature single flower, attended occasionally by a bit of lace, is called a fascinator.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The maneuver, in military parlance, is known as a force multiplier.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This includes a lawyer, who will reply to social messages and even gossipy chitchat from their work account.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Duvall, who won the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival, improvised much of her gossipy dialogue.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 19 July 2024

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“Colloquial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colloquial. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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