dialect
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
Types & categories
- non-standard speech hypernym
- eye dialect hyponym
- patois hyponym
Related & opposite
- accent derivation
- dialectal derivation
- spang has domain usage
- euphonious has domain usage
- forward has domain usage
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | accent |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dialectal |
| 1 | has domain usage | Related & opposite | spang |
| 1 | has domain usage | Related & opposite | euphonious |
| 1 | has domain usage | Related & opposite | forward |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | non-standard speech |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | eye dialect |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | patois |