DIALECTAL Synonyms

• not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community

• varying from or not adhering to a standard

• not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence

• characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation

• people in general (often used in the plural)

• a social division of (usually preliterate) people

• people descended from a common ancestor

• the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community

• relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area

• of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood

• affecting only a restricted part or area of the body

• public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops

• anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body

• of or associated with a province

• characteristic of the provinces or their people

• (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order

• a country person

• characteristic of a region

• related or limited to a particular region

• a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

• the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

• of or relating to or employing dialectic