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English Dictionary: dialect	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dialect n 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"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy" Synonym(s): dialect, idiom, accent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dialect \Di"alect\, n. [F. dialecte, L. dialectus, fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to converse, discourse. See {Dialogue}.] 1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect* As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. --South. 2. 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. In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language. --Earle. [Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. --Prescott. Syn: Language; idiom; tongue; speech; phraseology. See {Language}, and {Idiom}.