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   Dialect , n. [F. dialecte, L. dialectus, fr. Gr. διάλεκτος, fr. διαλέγομαι to converse, discourse. See Dialogue.]
   Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
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   This book is writ in such a dialect
   As may the minds of listless men affect.
   Bunyan.
   The universal dialect of the world.
   South.
   
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   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.
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   In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language.
   Earle.
   
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   [Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect.
   Prescott.
   Syn. -- Language; idiom; tongue; speech; phraseology. See Language, and Idiom.
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