The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances;
as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
“In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language.”
— Earle.
“[Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native
dialect.”
— Prescott.