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colloquialise

colloquialise is the alternative spelling of colloquialize.

Meaning of colloquialize

Verb

colloquialize (third-person singular simple present colloquializes, present participle colloquializing, simple past and past participle colloquialized)

  1. (transitive) To render colloquial.
    • Some felt that a colloquialized style should be expressed in romanization.1965, John Whitney Hall, Richard King Beardsley, Twelve doors to Japan

Forms of colloquialise

third-person singular presentcolloquialises
present participlecolloquialising
past participlecolloquialised
pastcolloquialised

Origin of colloquialise

From colloquial + -ise.

Questions about colloquialise

What is colloquialise the alternative spelling of?
Colloquialise is the alternative spelling of colloquialize.

Words near colloquialise in the dictionary

  1. colloquia
  2. colloquial
  3. colloquialese
  4. colloquialisation
  5. colloquialisations
  6. colloquialise
  7. colloquialised
  8. colloquialises
  9. colloquialising
  10. colloquialism
  11. colloquialisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: colloquialise (page history and authors); colloquialize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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