dialect

dialect is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
2. noun. The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
3. noun. the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

   "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"

   "he has a strong German accent"

   Synonyms: accent, idiom

Synonyms

accent, idiom

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dialect:

citadel, delicat, deltaic, edictal, lactide

Common word forms

dialects, dialectal

Words from these letters

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