Both Uses of
dialect
in
The Man Without a Country
- addressing him in every dialect
Chpt Rest *dialect = regional variety of a language
- The negroes were, most of them, out of the hold, and swarming all round the dirty deck, with a central throng surrounding Vaughan and addressing him in every dialect, and patois of a dialect, from the Zulu click up to the Parisian of Beledeljereed.†
Chpt Rest
Definition:
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(dialect) a regional variety of a languageeditor's notes: A dialect can use a different accent, vocabulary, and grammar than other dialects of the same language.