colloquialism

noun
/kəˈləʊ.kwi.əˌlɪz.əm/UK/kəˈloʊ.kwi.əˌlɪz.əm/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin loquor Latin colloquor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin colloquiumder. Middle English colloquies English colloquy Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English colloquial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English colloquialism From colloquial + -ism.

  1. derived from -ālisbor
  2. derived from -albor

Definitions

  1. A colloquial word or phrase

    A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression.

    • Before embarking on her trip, Kaefer expected to find a pan-Antarctic vocabulary, but quickly discovered there were distinct colloquialisms within each station.
  2. A colloquial manner of speaking.

    • The differences between slang, colloquialism and jargon are not clear-cut.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at colloquialism. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at colloquialism. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at colloquialism

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA