Thesaurus results for PARLANCES

parlances

noun

plural of parlance

as in vernacularisms

formal the manner of speech used by a particular group of people In military parlance, "bug out" means "to retreat." They spoke the parlance of those in the technology industry.

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Noun

That leaves countless other languages and dialects, even those spoken by tens of millions of people, by the wayside.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
With so many speakers in different places, Spanish has developed ten different main dialects.

— BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of dialects

Noun

For localization, Voithru’s Totus offers AI dubbing across 29 languages, and XL8 brings both MediaCAT and EventCAT for video localization and real-time interpretation.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
Flowkey works across laptops, phones, and tablets and is available in 11 languages.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2026

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There are plenty of idioms to describe Andrean outside hitter Aleece Ehler’s freshman season.

— Noah Poser, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
On the one hand, the translation serves as a source for the idioms of nineteenth-century English; on the other, as evidence of the ideas that the translator held about a Colombian woman writer.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026

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