Synonyms of dialects

dialects

noun

plural of dialect

as in languages

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• languages
• terminologies
• vocabularies
• slangs
• idioms
• patois
• argots
• jargons
• lingos
• cants
• vernaculars
• shoptalk
• colloquialisms
• regionalisms
• localisms
• patter
• shops
• jives
• pidgins
• vernacularisms
• speeches
• colloquials
• provincialisms
• parlances
• slanguages
• educationeses
• bureaucrateses
• technobabbles
• journaleses
• computereses
• governmenteses
• cyberspeaks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dialects

On the edges of the empire, speakers of Germanic dialects, such as the Goths and Vandals, frequently clashed with the Romans, eventually contributing to the fragmentation of the empire. — Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026

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

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

With so many speakers in different places, Spanish has developed ten different main dialects. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026

And while Hasidic dialects are by far the most spoken among modern Yiddish speakers, opportunities to learn the Hasidic dialect from native speakers like Malowicki are relatively rare. — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

Google says training across languages, dialects, and different proficiency levels helped the model learn structures shared between sign languages. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026

Outpouring of grief The sound of sobbing underlays chanting in dozens of dialects woven together in a single expression of sorrow for Imam Hussein and his companions and family, killed and taken captive in the defining event of Shia Islam. — Jane Arraf, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026

Sometimes the problem is not translation at all, but meanings that shift between two dialects of the same language. — Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 23 July 2026