Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inferior dialect; a subordinate or less important or prominent dialect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A subordinate dialect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
subordinate division of adialect
Etymologies
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Examples
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The great aviation writer Barrett Tillman pitched in with info on military radiospeak, a poetic subdialect I happen to love.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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The great aviation writer Barrett Tillman pitched in with info on military radiospeak, a poetic subdialect I happen to love.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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Rather, the republic adopted a Texas subdialect of the American dialect of law.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Rather, the republic adopted a Texas subdialect of the American dialect of law.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Rather, the republic adopted a Texas subdialect of the American dialect of law.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Nash is also a Slovak-influenced Galician subdialect of Ukrainian.
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Centuries later, as the individual countries were formed, one subdialect was decreed to be the official language of each: that of Castile became Spanish, of Tuscany,
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