Definitions of colloquial [əˈloʊ kwi əl]

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Definition of 'colloquial'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) colloquial
characteristic of or suitable to ordinary or familiar conversation or writing rather than formal speech or writing; informal.

2. colloquial
involving or using conversation.

Etymology: (1745–55; colloquy+-al¹)

Definition of 'colloquial'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) colloquial, conversational
characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
"wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"

Definition of 'colloquial'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) colloquial
(of language) informal, used in spoken language
a colloquial expression

Definition of 'colloquial'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) colloquial
pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style

Translation of 'colloquial'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: of or used in everyday informal, especially spoken, language a colloquial expression.
Afrikaans: alledaags	Arabic: عامّي، دارِج	Bulgarian: разговорен
Brazilian: coloquial	Czech: hovorový	German: umgangssprachlich
Danish: dagligdags; daglidags-; h	Greek: καθημερινός, της καθομιλο	Spanish: coloquial
Estonian: kõnekeelne	Farsi: محاوره ای؛ غیر رسمی	Finnish: puhekielinen
French: familier	Hebrew: דִיבּוִּרי	Hindi: प्रचलित
Croatian: svojstven razgovornom jez	Hungarian: kötetlen társalgási nyelv	Indonesian: bahasa percakapan, bahasa
Icelandic: talmáls-	Italian: colloquiale	Japanese: 口語の
Korean: 구어의	Lithuanian: šnekamosios kalbos	Latvian: sarunu- (par valodu, vārd
Malay: percakapan	Dutch: gemeenzaam	Norwegian: dagligdags, hverdags-, ta
Polish: potoczny	Persian: محاوره ای؛ غیر رسمی	Pashto: په عا ميانه ژبه خبظى، عاد
Portuguese: coloquial	Romanian: colocvial, familiar	Russian: разговорный
Slovak: hovorový	Slovenian: pogovoren	Serbian: kolokvijalni
Swedish: talspråklig, talspråks-,	Thai: ไม่เป็นทางการ	Turkish: konuşma diline ait
Taiwanese: 口語的，通俗語的	Ukrainian: розмовний, нелітературний	Urdu: روز مرہ بول چال کا، عامیا
Vietnamese: thông tục	Chinese: 口语的
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