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Definition: Colloquially |
ColloquiallyAdverb1. With the use of colloquial expressions; "this building is colloquially referred to as The Barn". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "colloquially" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonyms: ColloquiallySynonyms: conversationally (adv), informally (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Colloquially |
| English words defined with "colloquially": At a discount ♦ bad, Bad form, Between wind and water, bigheaded ♦ Cabbage head, chummy, conversationally ♦ Gnatworm ♦ hexed ♦ informally, inside track ♦ jinxed, jonquil ♦ matey ♦ On the warpath, Out of sorts ♦ pally, palsy-walsy, Peccavi, persnickety ♦ Rough diamond ♦ 's ♦ snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up ♦ To die in harness, To run to seed, To walk over, too big for one's breeches, tough ♦ uppish ♦ Walk-over, Without doors ♦ Zambo. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "colloquially": Cb, Cute ♦ lead rider ♦ Never, Not ♦ Orlistat ♦ TOP SCREW, top waddy. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A mature female blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), known colloquially as a "sook." Note the apron, shaped like the Capitol building, and the red-tipped claws. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some former LSD users report experiences known colloquially as "flashbacks" and called "HPPD" by physicians. (references) | |
Economic History | New Zealand | New Zealanders colloquially refer to themselves as "Kiwis," after the country' native bird. (references) |
Thailand | Thailand has twenty-eight commercial airports, five of which are international airports located in major cities--Bangkok, Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Hadyai and Phuket-and the other provincial facilities serving a much smaller number of passengers . The largest airport is Bangkok International Airport (BIA) with current capacity of 34 million annual passengers (MAP), which is forecast to grow to 50 MAP by 2006 . To accommodate this increase, the Thai government is underway with construction of a replacement airport (known as Suvarnabhumi or, more colloquially, NBIA) in southeast Bangkok, which has an estimated budget $2.6 billion and is scheduled to be fully operational by 2005 . (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Colloquially" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Colloquially" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "colloquially": colloquially-speaking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "colloquially"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 口语 (Colloquial). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | puhekielessä, jokapäiväisessä puheessa, arkikielessä. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | umgangssprachlich (colloquial). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 구어체 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | olloquiallycay familiarmente. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Colloquially" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: colloquiqlly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-l-l-o-o-q-u-y" | |
-2 letters: colloquial. | |
-3 letters: colloquia. | |
-4 letters: colloquy. | |
-5 letters: allylic, locally. | |
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