Synonyms of the word

patois

• n. A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
• n. Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
• n. Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
• n. Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican Creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also…
• n. Jargon or cant.

accent

• n. (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in…
• n. (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
• n. (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent,…
• n. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic…
• n. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular…
• n. (linguistics, sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does…
• n. A word; a significant tone or sound.
• n. (usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
• n. (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
• n. (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third…
• n. (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
• n. (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
• n. (music) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
• n. (music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
• n. (mathematics) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes…
• n. (geometry) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc., as in…
• n. (engineering) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10, meaning six feet ten inches.
• n. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail…
• n. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
• n. A distinctive feature or quality.
• n. (archaic) Utterance.
• v. (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
• v. (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
• v. (transitive) To mark with written accents.

argot

• n. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
• n. The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field,…

cant

• n. (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
• n. (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
• n. Shelta.
• n. (uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.
• n. (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
• n. (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some…
• n. (obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
• v. (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
• v. (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
• v. (intransitive) To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
• v. (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
• v. (obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
• n. (obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
• n. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
• n. A corner (of a building).
• n. An outer or external angle.
• n. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
• n. A movement or throw that overturns something.
• n. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias…
• n. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
• n. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
• n. (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
• v. (transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
• v. (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
• v. (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
• v. (transitive) To divide or parcel out.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) lively, lusty.

dialect

• n. (linguistics) A variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of…
• n. A dialect of a language perceived as substandard or wrong.
• n. A regional or minority language.
• n. (computing, programming) A variant of a non-standardized programming language.

idiom

• n. (now rare) A manner of speaking, a way of expressing oneself.
• n. A language or dialect.
• n. Specifically, a particular variety of language; a restricted dialect used in a given historical period,…
• n. An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
• n. An expression peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language, especially when the meaning is illogical…
• n. (programming) A programming construct or phraseology generally held to be the most efficient or elegant…

jargon

• n. (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
• n. (countable) Language characteristic of a particular group.
• n. (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
• v. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
• n. A variety of zircon.

lingo

• n. Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group or region; jargon or a dialect.

slang

• n. Language outside of conventional usage.
• n. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
• n. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those…
• v. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
• v. (archaic) simple past tense of sling.
• n. (Britain, dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

vernacular

• n. The language of a people or a national language.
• n. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific…
• n. Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
• adj. Of or pertaining to everyday language.
• adj. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
• adj. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
• adj. (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.