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A colloquialism is one informal word or phrase — a piece of everyday talk, not a whole style. What’s up? and grab a bite are colloquialisms. Teachers use this noun for the expression; colloquial is the adjective (“a colloquial word”). People sometimes stretch colloquialism to mean slang, or a saying from one town. Loosely, you will hear that, but a colloquialism need not be slang and need not belong to one place. It is simply language that lives in conversation more than in careful writing.
口語說法、口語用語
組成colloquial + -ism (the thing: one informal expression). Same Latin root as colloquy: con- “together” + loquor “to speak.”
同家族的字
- colloquialthe adjective; this is the noun built from it
- colloquysame Latin colloquium family
- colloquiallythe adverb: “in informal talk”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
colloquialismnoun/kəˈləʊ.kwi.əˌlɪz.əm/
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA 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.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA colloquial manner of speaking.
- The differences between slang, colloquialism and jargon are not clear-cut.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。