dialect atlas

American

noun

Linguistics.

a collection of maps of a certain area indicating the distribution of various phonological, morphological, lexical, or other features of the dialects of that area.

dialect atlas British

noun

another term for linguistic atlas

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Etymology

Origin of dialect atlas

First recorded in 1930–35

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