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Definition of Colloquialisms
1. colloquialism [n] - See also: colloquialism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colloquialisms
Literary usage of Colloquialisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples by John Franklin Genung (1896)
"Poetic Archaisms and Non-Colloquialisms.—The next step that poetry takes, in its
endeavor to heighten language above prose usage, is to employ words ..."
2. Everyday English, Book 1 by Jean Sherwood Rankin (1903)
"CHAPTER IV Colloquialisms You will find that the English of the ... You will
observe that there is a vast difference between slang and colloquialisms. ..."
3. How to Deal with Human Nature in Business: A Practical Book on Doing by Sherwin Cody (1915)
"Colloquialisms are homely expressions which do not shock the refined ear in ...
Colloquialisms may be used in letter-writing if necessary to make the ..."
4. The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos by Charles William Day (1844)
"Witness George IV., Byron, Bulwer, etc., all perfect masters of such colloquialisms.
Perhaps the greatest privilege of rank is, that it enables its ..."
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