DIALECT Synonyms

• a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

• the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

• distinctive manner of oral expression

• special importance or significance

• the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

• the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

• a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

• to stress, single out as important

• put stress on; utter with an accent

• a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

• the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

• the style of a particular artist or school or movement

• an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

• a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

• a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon

• specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject

• a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

• (language) communication by word of mouth

• the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number

• the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication

• the mental faculty or power of vocal communication

• a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

• an event that departs from expectations

• (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups

• a variable quantity that is random

• something a little different from others of the same type

• differing from a norm or standard

• exhibiting variation and change