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Meanings of casual language in English

Russian
разговорный язык
Portuguese
linguagem coloquial
Spanish
estilo coloquial
Catalan
llengua col·loquial

Style of the language used for casual communication.

      Related terms
      разговорный язык
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      Examples for "colloquialism"
      Examples for "colloquialism"
      1
      He had personal reasons to know the fundamental accuracy of the colloquialism.
      Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
      2
      There, Mr. Editor, you have a pleasing comminglement of romance and colloquialism.
      Old Fogy: His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
      3
      But in everyday speech a certain amount of colloquialism is inevitable.
      America To-day, Observations and Reflections
      4
      The richness of colloquialism moved the vicar of Mount Dunstan to deep enjoyment.
      The Shuttle
      5
      The colloquialism escaped Homosoto, but he got the gist of it.
      Terminal Compromise
      1
      An abbreviation of Betwixt, used in poetry, or in colloquial language.
      The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section T, U, V, ...
      2
      That was the original language of the Bible, a colloquial language.
      The Greatest English Classic / A Study of the King James Version...
      3
      Its satirical tone, contemporary colloquial language and run-on style are both amusing and annoying.
      The Irish Times
      4
      It is not just a colloquial language, Buthelezi said.
      The South African
      5
      Or, as she also puts it using more colloquial language, "the whole caboodle comes back".
      The Guardian
      1
      What would be a casual speech on the tongue of another becomes significant, when he has given one of his original twists to it.
      The Precipice: A Novel
      2
      Like other self-made men who had come to New York-like Selma herself-hehad shrunk from and deplored at first the lighter tone of casual speech.
      Unleavened Bread
      1
      Bunyan originated this colloquial style, and Defoe and Richardson were his imitators.
      From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin
      2
      Mr. Sprudell had a jaunty, colloquial style when he stooped to prose.
      The Man from the Bitter Roots
      3
      Perrin was nettled, for he prided himself on his colloquial style.
      White Lies
      4
      All other translations follow colloquial style for quick comprehension.
      Halo Silentium
      5
      Alan laughed at the man's inflated English, and answered in a more nervous and colloquial style:
      A Yellow God: An Idol of Africa
      1
      His colloquial speech accorded badly with his formal tone.
      Afterwards
      2
      But the Colonel's colloquial speech was apt to be fragmentary incoherencies of his larger oratorical utterances.
      Openings in the Old Trail
      3
      The phraseology is less literary, and more taken from the colloquial speech and the usage of everyday life.
      Anglo-Saxon Literature
      4
      He did not use them to show off, but because they seemed to him more adequate than colloquial speech.
      The Song of the Lark
      5
      The wheel which he had jogged so agreeably had come full round, and, in colloquial speech, had biffed him in the eye.
      The Lost Naval Papers
      1
      I shuddered as the man grew colloquial-andwith familiar speech of another day.
      The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
      2
      Very careful, prudent, precise persons are seldom entertaining in familiar speech.
      Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
      3
      Everything has its due season, familiar speech and formal speech.
      The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
      4
      Mr. Calton, construing her silence and averted head into some resentment of his familiar speech, continued hurriedly:-
      From Sand Hill to Pine
      5
      Peyton ignored the now familiar speech.
      The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
      1
      I couldn't help myself and I kept my voice to a low register because Hayden was in the vicinity.
      Black Deutschland
      2
      He seeks the fundamental tones of the Maket pipes in the first or low register, an octave below the normal pitch.
      Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
      3
      His face always grave, yet strong and comforting, his voice unwavering, yet muted to a low register, he commanded the mourning ritual.
      The Godfather
      4
      Her range is good, with a lovely full low register, a firm middle register and no appreciable trace of [strain in the top.
      The Irish Times
      5
      "You mustn't go." Ominously, Ellen's voice dipped to the low register.
      Romancing miss bronte: a novel
      1
      They cross the line going from informal language to a physics lesson.
      Wired
      2
      She loved being their informal language teacher.
      The Irish Times
      3
      People write back in the first person, using the informal language of the web, and Trump retweets messages from his followers.
      Reuters
      4
      Of course, with short e-mail messages that use informal language, as opposed to long documents, the need for editing or correction is minimal.
      Reuters
      5
      Since that December, the informal language of the SMS and other digital platforms has become a social concern, especially for its effect on kids.
      Radio NZ
      Usage of casual language in English
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      The doctor had been "at him," so to speak, searching the depths of him with a probing acuteness the casual language had disguised.
      The Centaur