Colloquial Definition

kə-lōkwē-əl
adjective
Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal.
American Heritage
Having to do with or like conversation; conversational.
Webster's New World

Informal.

Webster's New World
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Origin of Colloquial

  • 1751, from earlier term colloquy (a conversation), from Latin colloquium (conference, conversation), from con- (together) + loqui (speak).

    From Wiktionary

  • From colloquy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Colloquial Sentence Examples

  • His colloquial talents were indeed of the highest order.

  • The merchant families of Iannina are well educated; the dialect spoken in that town is the purest specimen of colloquial Greek.

  • His sermons were colloquial, simple, full of conviction and point.

  • The romances of Baron Frederick Podmaniczky are simpler, and rather of a narrative than colloquial character.

  • But as soon as the dialect is adopted, it begins to diverge from the colloquial form.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOL

Words Ending With

LALIAL

Unscrambles

colloquial

Words Starting With C and Ending With L

Starts With C & Ends With LStarts With CO & Ends With LStarts With C & Ends With AL

Word Length

10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With C10 Letter Words Ending With L