Lect meaning

lĕkt
A social or regional variety of speech having a sociolinguistic or functional identity within a speech community.
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Lecture.
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Lecturer.
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A variety within a language.
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(linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific form of a language or language cluster: a language or a dialect. The term is used when it is not possible or preferable to decide whether something is a distinct language or only a dialect of a language.
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Origin of lect

  • From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
  • From (dia)lect
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Use as an independent noun of the suffix -lect.
    From Wiktionary

Lect Sentence Examples

  • Lect.

  • vi., and the Tagore Law Lectures (1870) by Herbert Cowell, lect.

  • Rendel Harris, Sidelights on New Testament Research, Lect.

  • 18 (1903); C. Tiele, Elements of the Science of Religion (Gifford lectures,lect.

  • Sanday, Inspiration (Lect.

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