Associations to the word «Colloquial»
Wiktionary
COLLOQUIAL, adjective. (linguistics) Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal.
COLLOQUIAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.
Dictionary definition
COLLOQUIAL, adjective. Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.