colloquialism
colloquialism is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abuse
- accent
- adumbrate
- adumbration
- allegorical
- allegorize
- allegory
- allude
- allusion
- allusive
- ambiguity
- anagoge
- anagogical
- anagram
- analogy
- antiphrasis
- apologue
- application
- apply
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- association
- babu
- barbarism
- black
- brogue
- broken
- byword
- call
- cant
- catachresis
- catachrestical
- clinch
- coin
- coiner
- colloquial
- confusion
- corruption
- dialect
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is colloquialism.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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