acrolect

noun

Definition of acrolectnext
as in mother tongue

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  1. mother tongue
  2. idiom
  3. dialect
  4. jargon
  5. parlance
  6. slang
  7. patter
  8. vernacular
Noun
  • In our Romansh language, which is my mother tongue, Igniv means bird's nest, which is perfect for sharing.
    Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • How could someone who’d left China in fifth grade have kept up her mother tongue so well?
    Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of mother tongue
Noun
  • The versatile, always-all-in Mars is a worthy lodestar for Rosé and Rosie, an album that whirls through 21st-century pop idioms with aplomb even as its heroine ruminates on heartache and anxiety.
    Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Perhaps that’s why his debut album as Chanel Beads is filled with self-help idioms and reflections on internal conflicts.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of idiom
Noun
  • Jones and Brody learned Hungarian and worked with a dialect coach for the movie.
    Carole Horst, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Turns out, dat good ole dialect is a put-on: James speaks like a professor.
    Rachel Flynn, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of dialect
Noun
  • Making these oversized elephants dance will take way more than slashing budgets and slapping agile jargon on the all-hands PowerPoint presentations.
    Greg Orme, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In the jargon of photographers, they are said to have an infinite depth of field.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Mar. 2013
Definition of jargon
Noun
  • Think of the faster speed of sending over data, or higher bandwidth in chips parlance, as a highway.
    Wayne Chang, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
  • There isn’t a proper app store or any app icons to manage That will hopefully force developers to make apps (or, in Alexa's parlance, skills) that feel native to this device.
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of parlance
Noun
  • Jone [Southern slang meaning make fun, joke around].
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Previous generations of slang terms usually had one-to-one translations to, for lack of a better word, normal English.
    Evan Porter, Parents, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of slang
Noun
  • Ever the needler, Travis hands her money to buy a book to learn to speak English, because her hillbilly patter will drive him crazy.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
  • In a mode somewhat reminiscent of Diablo Cody’s early films, this screenplay’s snappy patter can cross a line from sharp to merely show-offy.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of patter
Noun
  • While still young, he was drawn to the body and Black vernaculars of motion, ultimately creating a language that incorporated ballet, tap, and contemporary dance.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Comparatively, while New Hampshire is quiet, with a small core group of practitioners working in regional vernaculars, Maine and Vermont boast a disproportionate number of architects—Elliott Architects and Birdseye among them—engaged in custom residential equal to that of the nation’s highest.
    Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of vernacular
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