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linguistic atlas

American  

noun

  1. dialect atlas.

linguistic atlas British  

noun

  1. an atlas showing the distribution of distinctive linguistic features of languages or dialects

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Etymology

Origin of linguistic atlas

First recorded in 1920–25

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