Usually means: Regional dialect distinct from standard.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. patois: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. patois: Merriam-Webster
  3. patois: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. patois: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. patois: Collins English Dictionary
  6. patois: Vocabulary.com
  7. Patois, patois: Wordnik
  8. patois: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. patois: Wiktionary
  10. patois: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. patois: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. patois: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Patois, patois: Dictionary.com
  14. patois: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Patois: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Patois: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. patois: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. patois: Rhymezone
  19. Patois: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Patois: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. patois: FreeDictionary.org
  22. patois: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. patois: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. patois: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patois: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PATOIS: Acronym Finder
  2. patois: A Word A Day
  3. patois: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Patois: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
noun:  Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
noun:  Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
noun:  (Jamaica) Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also has influences from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
noun:  Jargon or cant.
noun:  Alternative form of Patwa

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