• Nonstandard

    Alternative forms

    Origin

    - + standard

    Full definition of nonstandard

    Adjective

    nonstandard

    1. Not standard.
    2. (linguistics) Not conforming to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.
      • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course Chapter 9The resulting sequence of covert wh-pronoun + Complementiser has an overt counterpart in nonstandard varieties of English, as the following example (recorded from a BBC radio programme) illustrates:
        (91)      England put themselves in a position that they took a lot of credit for tonightʼs game (Ron Greenwood, BBC radio 4)

    Noun

    nonstandard

    (plural nonstandards)
    1. Something that is not standard.
      • 2008, Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista (page 438)Unlike the TV standard we are all accustomed to, the Web is the wild, wild West of video nonstandards.
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