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dialect

noun

ˈdī-ə-ˌlekt

Definition of dialect

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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 What used to be two entirely separate compliance projects is starting to look like two dialects of the same emerging language. — Abdelahhad Barbour, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Coming from a village in a southern province, illiterate, and speaking only local dialect, women like her come to Beijing to live with their sons and daughters. — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 Historians have gleaned information from journals, letters and diaries, about their dialect. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 That leaves countless other languages and dialects, even those spoken by tens of millions of people, by the wayside. — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dialect

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By following an idea through scholarship, students can see how terminology shifts, arguments develop, and disagreements emerge, and how their own writing enters that process.

— Saurabh Anand, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2026
The result can be a homepage filled with procedures, devices, awards, credentials and medical terminology without a clear reason to keep going.

— Chris Zelig, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of terminology

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Even as strong as the UNEP report is, the language of who does mitigation is so vague as to almost verge on the passive voice.

— Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
The ballot measure’s opponents have argued the language around broadband facilities is broad enough to include the controversial facilities.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of language

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Prada presented the skirt as a vocabulary, demonstrating the infinite possibilities that can emerge from an archetypal garment.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
The setup is surely familiar to teachers of English as a second language all over the world, but the choice of vocabulary is a bit different from your typical classroom.

— Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of vocabulary

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McCaffrey and the 49ers will return to the United States after their win and lesson in Australian slang to play the Miami Dolphins in Week 2.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
The script itself is filled with the language of its time and place, including Berliner gutter slang and high-society clichés, casino speech and capitalist jargon, spoken Yiddish and literary German.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

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