ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dialectism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Dialectism is a noun meaning (linguistics) Alternative form of dialecticism.

Meaning

(linguistics) Alternative form of dialecticism.

Example Sentences

It was the scribe of y who replaced certain dialectisms and less usual forms by the common types, e.g. .
Starting with Jungmann, the opinion that before the National Revival the Czech language was in decay (invaded by dialectisms, inappropriate neologisms, overwhelming loans from German, and so on) then spread .
... the formal normative variety of the language as it is used today in formal writing by educated native speakers. As a result, we have eschewed dialectisms and regionalisms. The English variety employed in the book is formal British English, .

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Related dictionary entries include dialectalism, dialecticalisation, eclectism, dissyllabism, dialethism, pseudolinguistics.

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