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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[See

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.

Adj.

[See Colloquy.] Pertaining to common conversation, or to mutual discourse; as colloquial language; a colloquial phrase.