English Explanatory Dictionary

areoversal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A linguistic feature that is recurrent in language varieties in a certain geographical area.

Word forms

areoversal areoversals

Etymology

Blend of area + universal with Latinizing -o-. Coined by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann (2009), apparently after earlier angloversal.

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