| 单词 | dialect |
| 释义 | dialect (once / 647 pages) n If the language you speak in your region is different in vocabulary, grammar and accent than the main form of the language, you speak a dialect. If your cousin in rural Arkansas can't understand your jokes, blame it on differences in dialect. Both an accent and a dialect contain variations in pronunciation from the standard form of a language. When you speak a dialect, however, you also use different words and grammar, sometimes to such a degree that speakers of the dialect and the standard form of the language have a hard time understanding each other. WORD FAMILYdialect: dialectal, dialects USAGE EXAMPLESOne of the key challenges is getting the technology conversant with multiple languages, accents and dialects. Seattle Times(Dec 17, 2016) The actors, all residents of the area, speak in their native dialect. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) But it's also a country with more than twenty languages and hundreds more dialects. BBC(Dec 12, 2016) n the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy Syn|Hypo|Hyper accent, idiom eye dialect the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker patoisa regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard non-standard speech speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
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