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WordBand 6.5–7.5Toofey picks
dialect
/ˈdaɪ.əˌlɛkt/
noun
A form of a language used in one region or group.
- “People in the north speak a different dialect.”Toofey
- “The distinction between a language and a dialect is arbitrary.”Tatoeba
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Source: Written for Toofey (original); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0)