colloquial
colloquial
Definition
col·lo·quial (kə lō′kwē əl)
colloquial
Synonyms
colloquial
modif.
colloquial
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- Hindi: What makes Colloquial Hindi your best choice in personal language learning?
- dialect: The colloquial dialect is no doubt accurate enough, for this was one form of speech he would have heard regularly in the trenches.
- expression: To use a colloquial expression, the group is heaving with new people arriving all the time, which is fantastic!
- phrase: She was patient enough to help me with the light homework assignments, and added a stock of useful colloquial phrases to my vocabulary.
- speech: They have changed the language to modern English, including colloquial speech.
Modifying Another Word
- very: Old English ); they might be either very formal or very colloquial words.
- too: They wanted to steer between a register of language that was too colloquial and one that was too formal.
- often: This is often colloquial, and is also a way or new verbs to enter the language.
- not: The Greek of the New Testament is not colloquial.
- even: The style is dense but lively, even colloquial.
colloquial Quotes
I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations.
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