All 4 Uses
dialect
in
A Farewell to Arms
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- "So long," I said in dialect.†
Book 1dialect = regional variety of a language
- The girl who looked at me said something in a dialect I could not understand a word of.
Book 3 *
- Both the girls nodded their heads and the elder said something in dialect.†
Book 3
- He said something in a German dialect to him.†
Book 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(dialect) a regional variety of a languageA dialect can use a different accent, vocabulary, and grammar than other dialects of the same language.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)