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dialectisms

dialectisms is the plural of dialectism.

Meaning of dialectism

Noun

dialectism (plural dialectisms)

  1. (rhetoric) Synonym of dialecticism (a dialectal word or phrase).
    • It was the scribe of y who replaced certain dialectisms and less usual forms by the common types, e.g. ...1972, Williem Frederik Bakker, Arnold F. van Gemert, Willem Johan Aerts, Studia Byzantina Et Neohellenica Neerlandica, →ISBN, page 87
    Synonyms:
    dialecticism

Questions about dialectisms

What is dialectisms the plural of?
Dialectisms is the plural of dialectism.

Words near dialectisms in the dictionary

  1. dialecticks
  2. dialectics
  3. dialecting
  4. dialectised
  5. dialectism
  6. dialectisms
  7. dialectization
  8. dialectless
  9. dialectness
  10. dialectological
  11. dialectologically

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