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colloquialisms

colloquialisms is the plural of colloquialism.

Meaning of colloquialism

Noun

colloquialism (countable and uncountable, plural colloquialisms)

  1. A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression.
    • Before embarking on her trip, Kaefer expected to find a pan-Antarctic vocabulary, but quickly discovered there were distinct colloquialisms within each station.2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian
  2. A colloquial manner of speaking.
    • The differences between slang, colloquialism and jargon are not clear-cut.1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page v

Questions about colloquialisms

What is colloquialisms the plural of?
Colloquialisms is the plural of colloquialism.

Words near colloquialisms in the dictionary

  1. colloquialise
  2. colloquialised
  3. colloquialises
  4. colloquialising
  5. colloquialism
  6. colloquialisms
  7. colloquialist
  8. colloquialists
  9. colloquialities
  10. colloquiality
  11. colloquialization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colloquialisms (page history and authors); colloquialism (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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