COLLOQUIAL meaning: Informal, conversational language or expression

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word colloquial:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

colloquial: Merriam-Webster
colloquial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
colloquial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
colloquial: Collins English Dictionary
colloquial: Vocabulary.com
Colloquial, colloquial: Wordnik
colloquial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
colloquial: Wiktionary
colloquial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
colloquial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
colloquial: Infoplease Dictionary
colloquial: Dictionary.com
colloquial: Online Etymology Dictionary
colloquial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Colloquial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Colloquial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
colloquial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
colloquial: Rhymezone
colloquial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
colloquial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
colloquial: FreeDictionary.org
colloquial: Mnemonic Dictionary
colloquial: TheFreeDictionary.com
colloquial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Colloquial: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)

colloquial: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

colloquial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

colloquial: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  (linguistics) Characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.
▸ noun:  A colloquial word or phrase, colloquialism

Opposite:

formal, informal

Types:

slang, jargon, vernacular, dialect, idiom, regionalism, neologism, slangy, more...

Phrases:

colloquial language, colloquial speech, colloquial term, colloquial expression, colloquial parents, more...

Adjectives:

more, modern, standard, english, romanized, low, less, humorous, egyptian, literary, formal

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