Word Meanings - SUBDIALECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subordinate dialect.

SUBORDINATE
1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was
DIALECTAL
Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
DIALECTIC; DIALECTICAL
1. Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental. 2. Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects. Earle.
DIALECTOR
One skilled in dialectics.
DIALECTIC
See SCOTT
DIALECTICALLY
In a dialectical manner.
DIALECTICS
That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion. Note: Dialectics was defined by Aristotle
DIALECTOLOGY
That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects. Beck.
DIALECTICIAN
One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.
DIALECT
1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech. This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. South. 2. The form of speech of a limited region
INSUBORDINATE
Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
TRANSDIALECT
To change or translate from one dialect into another. Bp. Warburton.
SUBDIALECT
A subordinate dialect.