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[ UK /dˈa‍ɪ‍əlɛkt/ ]
[ US /ˈdaɪəˌɫɛkt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
    he has a strong German accent
    the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
    it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy

How To Use dialect In A Sentence

  • The clinician must be well-attuned to the patient when the patient may be in the process of reconstructing schemas, thinking dialectically, recognizing paradox and generating a revised life narrative.
  • The critics are in awe of the play's fast, violent pacing, its tight structure and the humorous Scottish dialect.
  • I. ii.188 (19,2) [There is a prone and speechless dialect] I can scarcely tell what signification to give to the word _prone_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
  • Baffler editors have called commodification of dissent stretches back to Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and is alive and well in what he calls the "alienation market" in which films like Fahrenheit 9 / 11 either already have or are destined to make bundles (relatively speaking, of course). GreenCine Daily
  • It entails boy's-adventure jolliness, raffish character comedy, social satire, dialect humor, maybe-metaphorical farce, a parody of morbidly sentimental verse. Books on Southern Humor
  • It makes it all deliciously, dialectically melodious. HBO's 'Sunset Limited' review: All aboard the theological choo-choo
  • I go back now and the dialect of the old residents is noticeably absent, replaced by the faux scouse of the Liverpudlian refugees.
  • It is a dialect form of Old Fr. gaite, cognate with watch. The Romance of Names
  • Enraged by the success of "We's Lives," he writes a violent, nihilistic, dialect-strewn thug novel he bitingly titles "My Pafology. A Protean Chronicler of Racial Puzzles
  • Some of these commentators build up dialectics into an alternative to all previous forms of logic, something that supersedes such ordinary reasoning as the simple syllogistic form of argument set out on the first page of this chapter.
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