Loading page
say it: DAHY-uh-lekt
dialect is a noun meaning "the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people". It is pronounced /ˈdaɪəˌlɛkt/ — DAHY-uh-lekt. It carries one recorded sense.
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
“the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English”
“he has a strong German accent”
“it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dialect come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.