dialect geography

1. 1.

   the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features

   Synonymslinguistic geography

   Broaderlinguistics

Questions about dialect geography

What does dialect geography mean?

dialect geography means "the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features".

What is another word for dialect geography?

Close synonyms include linguistic geography. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dialect geography a common word?

dialect geography is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.