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nounthe usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of peopletype of:
Definition that contains dialect
- good (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')
- well (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')
- chinese any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
- latin any dialect of the language of ancient Rome
- northern a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans
- wu a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
- arabic the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects
- scotch of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language
- attic of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times
- attic the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia