💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Lect"
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| intelnoun | (especially espionage and military) Intelligence (secret information). |
| dialectnoun | (linguistics, broad sense) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon. |
| geolectnoun | A dialect spoken in a particular geographical area. |
| idiolectnoun | (linguistics) The language variant used by a specific individual. |
| leednoun | (UK dialectal, Scotland) The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction. |
| isolectnoun | (linguistics) A language or dialect; coined as a neutral term between ‘language’ and ‘dialect.’ |
| language nestnoun | (linguistics) A language revitalisation programme in which children and non-native speakers acquire the endangered language through immersion in special-purpose locations called 'nests'. |
| idiomnoun | A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people. |
| regionalectnoun | A dialect spoken in a particular geographical region. |
| regiolectnoun | A lect spoken in a particular geographical region. |
| langwidgenoun | Eye dialect spelling of language. [(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.] |
| natiolectnoun | A national standard variety of a language spoken in more than one region. |
| open classnoun | (linguistics) A set of words in a given language that can readily gain new members. |
| standard dialectnoun | (sociolinguistics) Synonym of standard language |
| eye dialectnoun | (uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal. |
| religiolectnoun | A language variety with its own history and development, which is used by a religious community. |
| linguistic landscapenoun | (linguistics) The totality of written language visible within a certain area. |
| leddennoun | Alternative form of leden. [(obsolete) Language; speech.] |
| colonial lagnoun | (linguistics) The retention of certain lexical items in a colonial variety of a language which have fallen into disuse in the original language. |
| ecolectnoun | A language variety unique to a household. |
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