In a sentence
Six example sentences with colloquial, each labelled with its topic.
Twain filled the raft scenes with colloquial talk, so the boys sound like neighbors rather than narrators.
Literature
Phrasebooks teach polite forms, but a week in the market taught me the colloquial greeting everyone actually uses.
Travel
The judge asked the witness to translate a colloquial phrase from the recording into plain courtroom terms.
Law
The songwriter keeps every lyric colloquial, so a verse sounds like something said across a kitchen table.
Music
The bank rewrote its letters in colloquial English after customers said the old ones read like a court summons.
Business
The assistant handles a colloquial question like 'what's the deal with my bill' better than the stiff wording of the manual.
Technology
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Found in these word lists
Found in 6 published word lists
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
Each source is a published word list that contains colloquial. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.