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colloquialize

/kəˈləʊ.kwi.əˌlaɪz/

colloquialize verb: to render colloquial.

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

colloquialize meaning in Bengali

colloquialize in Bengali

কথ্য রূপ দান করা

Forms of colloquialize

third-person singular presentcolloquializes
present participlecolloquializing
past participlecolloquialized
pastcolloquialized
alternative formcolloquialise

Origin of colloquialize

From colloquial + -ize.

Words formed from colloquialize

Questions about colloquialize

What does colloquialize mean?
Colloquialize means to render colloquial.
What is colloquialize in Bengali?
Colloquialize in Bengali is কথ্য রূপ দান করা. See Colloquialize meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is colloquialize?
Colloquialize is a verb.
How do you pronounce colloquialize?
Colloquialize is pronounced /kəˈləʊ.kwi.əˌlaɪz/.
What is the past tense of colloquialize?
The past tense of colloquialize is colloquialized.

Words near colloquialize in the dictionary

  1. colloquialists
  2. colloquialities
  3. colloquiality
  4. colloquialization
  5. colloquializations
  6. colloquialize
  7. colloquialized
  8. colloquializes
  9. colloquializing
  10. colloquially
  11. colloquialness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colloquialize (page history and authors); colloquialize (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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