Hypertext Webster Gateway: "colloquial"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Colloquial \Col*lo"qui*al\, a. [See {Colloqui}.]
Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and
familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied;
informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a
colloquial style. -- {Col*lo"qui*al*ly}, adv.
His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the
highest order. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
colloquial
adj : characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation;
"wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken
syntax and casual enunciation of conversational
English" [syn: {conversational}]
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