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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Colloquial \Col*lo"qui*al\, a. [See {Colloqui}.]
Pertaining to or used in conversation, esp. common and
familiar conversation; conversational; hence unstudied;
informal; as colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a
colloquial style. -- {Col*lo"qui*al*ly}, adv
His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were indeed, of the
highest order --Macaulay.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
colloquial
adj : characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation;
"wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken
syntax and casual enunciation of conversational
English" [syn: {conversational}]
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