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
  • This suggested, startlingly, that birds could learn a literal mother tongue while still in ovo.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The font on the album cover is a play on the Geʽez script used in Amharic, her mother tongue.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of mother tongue
Noun
  • Working across styles and idioms including classical, jazz, pop, R&B, and film scoring—and breaking ground for African American achievement in the entertainment industries—Jones has garnered the highest levels of critical and commercial acclaim.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The New York alto saxophonist, composer, vocalist and bandleader makes her Bay Area debut this weekend with a series of gigs, introducing a beguiling body of tunes shaped by her Chinese American heritage and deep engagement with various jazz, folk and pop idioms.
    Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of idiom
Noun
  • The delightful elocution of their dry-as-martini witticisms (dialect coach Nancy Carlin) adds to the joys of this period piece.
    Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Scholars say their separation from the mainland caused residents to retain much of their African heritage, including their unique dialect and skills and crafts such as cast-net fishing and basket-weaving.
    Russ Bynum and Emily Wagster Pettus, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of dialect
Noun
  • For the lyrics, Camille integrated the legal jargon that would typically go into a closing argument.
    Paula Aceves, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Its talky theatricality and soapy melodrama is bolstered by more political jargon than a CNN Election Night roundtable (and with smarter dialogue).
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of jargon
Noun
  • In Jilly Cooper’s world, men conquer, women sigh, the sun shines perpetually on pale-gold Cotswolds mansions with bluebells in bloom, and absolutely everyone is DTF, as the parlance goes.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Through a melodic flow of political parlance and an impressive stable of sprightly actors, creator Debora Cahn stages a spirited play about political relationships — and relationship politics — that never feels stodgy or stupefying, despite an ungodly amount of dialogue.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of parlance
Noun
  • Fact checked by Sarah Scott Parents of tweens and teens like me are always in need of a brush up on current slang terms, such as lala bop, and rizz.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Slang terms for marijuana Pot, Mary Jane, grass, reefer, green, hash, ganja and doobie are just a few of the ever-growing list of slang terms used in exchange for marijuana.
    Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of slang
Noun
  • Most of the cast rises to meet the quality of his inimitable patter, particularly in the cases of Stiller, Claudia Schiffer, and Joe Pantoliano, upon whose backs the core mystery hinges.
    Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But at times, there’s a defensive, slightly cruel streak to his patter that can eclipse his better angels (of which there are many) and test the goodwill of those around him.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of patter
Noun
  • 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
  • Since 2015, the term lynching, a word with 18th-century American roots, has become part of the Indian vernacular.
    Mohammad Ali, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2020
Definition of vernacular
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