Dialectal Synonyms

Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. colloquial
  2. local
  3. regional
  4. provincial
  5. limited
  6. dialectical
  7. vernacular
  8. idiomatic
  9. indigenous
  10. rural
  11. geographically restricted
  12. socially restricted
  13. nonstandard
  14. not generally accepted
  15. not generally in use

Words Related to Dialectal

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. inflectional
  2. orthographical
  3. orthography
  4. homonymy
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Dialectal Sentence Examples

  • Hood is a very usual dialectal form of wood; and in his play Edward the First, George Peele actually alludes to the bandit as "Robin of the Wood."

  • In our own day, when the literary medium of Scotland is identical with that of England, the term Scottish literature has been reserved for certain dialectal revivals, more or less bookish in origin, and often as artificial and as unrelated to existing conditions as the most " aureate " and Chaucerian " Ynglis " of the 1 5th century was to the popular speech of that time.

  • The Scot, whatever dialectal habits marked his speech, wrote the English of Englishmen.

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