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Antonyms for dialects

Grammar : Noun
Spell : dahy-uh-lekt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdaɪ əˌlɛkt

Definition of dialects

Origin :
  • 1570s, "form of speech of a region or group," from Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectus "local language, way of speaking, conversation," from Greek dialektos "talk, conversation, speech;" also "the language of a country, dialect," from dialegesthai "converse with each other," from dia- "across, between" (see dia-) + legein "speak" (see lecture (n.)).
  • noun local speech
Example sentences :
  • Before the growth of poetry or the invention of writing, languages were only dialects.
  • Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
  • But we're picking up words as fast as we can, all kinds of dialects.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • Perhaps some student of English dialects may yet succeed in recovering it all.
  • Extract from : « The Gypsies » by Charles G. Leland
  • They doggedly preserved their local gods and Semitic dialects.
  • Extract from : « The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism » by Franz Cumont
  • An important passage for the literature of the dialects generally.
  • Extract from : « The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy » by Jacob Burckhardt
  • Father Membré, familiar as he was with several Indian dialects, could not speak their language.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
  • With it is closely allied that of the Bemba or Emba dialects.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 » by Various
  • American it may be, and it is not unlike the "Ow" of some dialects, but pure English it is not.
  • Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury
  • They were talking in half a dozen different tongues and dialects.
  • Extract from : « Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall » by Jean K. Baird
  • Abortive, crippled, or brutal, are however not necessarily 'corrupted' dialects.
  • Extract from : « The Crown of Wild Olive » by John Ruskin

Synonyms for dialects

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