All 8 Uses

dialect
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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She spoke a slightly different dialect than I was familiar with in Puwei, but this was not the only reason for my incomprehension.†
Chpt 5 *

dialect = regional variety of a language
She asked about our village and I told her that Puwei meant Common Beauty Village in our local dialect.†
Chpt 5
In our dialect, the word for shoe sounds the same as the word for child.†
Chpt 9
And in our local dialect, the word for wife is the same as the word for guest.†
Chpt 10
They did, but the coarseness of their dialect, even though only a few li from Tongkou, told me a lot about the unsavory quality of the people who lived here.†
Chpt 11
As you know, in our dialect the word for shoe sounds the same as the word for child.†
Chpt 12
He had learned the supreme lesson: All scholars, no matter where they lived or what dialect they spoke, read the same texts and took the same exams so that loyalty, integrity, and a singular vision would be maintained across the realm.†
Chpt 17
His friendly manner, eagerness to walk unannounced into houses, subtlety with the local dialect, familiarity with classical Chinese and history, and enthusiastic interest in nu shu—something that he had not known existed—helped make my journey especially fruitful.†
Chpt 20

Definitions:

(1) (dialect)
a regional variety of a language

A dialect can use a different accent, vocabulary, and grammar than other dialects of the same language.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)