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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
colloquial /kəˈləʊkwɪəl/

▶adjective (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.

– derivatives
colloquially adverb.

– origin C18: from L. colloquium ‘conversation’ + -al.

'colloquial' also found in these Oxford entries:

colloquialism - demotic - -ers - Vulgate

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