acrolect

noun

Definition of acrolectnext
as in mother tongue

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  1. mother tongue
  2. idiom
  3. dialect
  4. jargon
  5. parlance
  6. slang
  7. patter
  8. vernacular
Noun
  • Acting was entirely new territory, but there was a comfort level in the role being Thai and her character speaking both English and her mother tongue.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026
  • To clarify his point, the festival regular must cite his mother tongue.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
Definition of mother tongue
Noun
  • In the more compressed idiom of three-act-movie storytelling, this chapter would represent the end of act two, when all hope appears lost.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
  • There are plenty of idioms to describe Andrean outside hitter Aleece Ehler’s freshman season.
    — Noah Poser, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of idiom
Noun
  • Owner and chef Stefania Marchesini, who fished professionally herself for 11 years, pays a premium to local fishermen, especially for soft-shell crabs known in the local dialect as moeche.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • What used to be two entirely separate compliance projects is starting to look like two dialects of the same emerging language.
    — Abdelahhad Barbour, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of dialect
Noun
  • Coming in at around ten thousand words and littered with political science jargon, the study from Gilens and Page was an unfortunate example of academic overwriting.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
  • While the granting or denial of a stay might sound like legal jargon, there are real-world implications at stake.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of jargon
Noun
  • In response, the town shifted its marketing to late-night booze-ups and wedding parties (known, in British parlance, as stag dos and hen dos), and subsequently grew a reputation as a sandcastle Sodom.
    — George Francis Lee, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
  • In OpenAI's current parlance, a plugin is a bundle of apps, instructions, role-specific skills, and recurring workflows rather than an external application or a folder of sample prompts.
    — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of parlance
Noun
  • Young artists like the members of the Chilean boy band Q_ARE are fusing these elements with Latin music styles, Spanish and English lyrics and Chilean slang to pioneer a uniquely Latino pop subgenre.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The latest slang to capture the Gen Z zeitgeist is a way to say poser, try-hard or fraud.
    — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of slang
Noun
  • These activities can improve information recall, patter recognition, and decision making.
    — Connie Etermadi, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Bugs, with his carrot-chomping patter, naturally brought out the character’s talkative side in their occasional matchups.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of patter
Noun
  • Many have already mined Ford’s design vernacular, few with the original gusto.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 2 Sep. 2026
  • At the same time, on a remote mountain in New Zealand, a little girl was running similar experiments, sublimating the language of cartoons into a supple personal vernacular.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of vernacular
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