Dialect
Dialect noun - The special terms or expressions of a particular group or field.
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Synonyms for Dialect
Native language and dialect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Native language" instead a noun "Dialect".
Native language
Native language noun - The language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood.
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Synonyms for Native language
Dialect and native language are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dialect" instead a noun phrase "Native language".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- tongue and dialect
- tongue and native language
- speech and dialect
- speech and native language
- idiom and dialect
- idiom and native language
- vernacular and dialect
- vernacular and native language
- patois and dialect
- patois and native language
- language and dialect
- language and native language
- cant and dialect
- cant and native language
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Also compare Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas, which is about inept translations, Separated by a Common Language, in which similar problems happen because of differences in dialect, and Malaproper, a character who does this in their native language.
Source: My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels - In addition, Viktor Navorski's native language is very consistent with what Eastern European languages are like (it's a dialect of Bulgarian).
Source: Shown Their Work / Film
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Native language and Dialect. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dialect/native_language
Dialect & Native language. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dialect/native_language>.
Native language or Dialect. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dialect/native_language.
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