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Color has not disclosed a valuation with recent rounds, making this the first official confirmation that the company is a “unicorn,” a colloquial industry term for a private startup worth over $1 billion.
HEALTH TECH PLATFORM COLOR IS A UNICORN AFTER NEW FUNDING ROUND VALUES IT AT $1.5 BILLIONDZANEMORRISJANUARY 4, 2021FORTUNE
And, hey, the name Finimondo — “the end of the world” — seems appropriate for these times, though the importer explains that the name is a colloquial expression meaning the wine is terrific.
THIS SAUVIGNON BLANC TASTES LIKE A SPLURGE, BUT DOESN’T COST LIKE ONEDAVE MCINTYREJANUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST
"All they can rap and run for" is the more frequent colloquial version of this quaint phrase.
The brilliance of his wife, and her most fascinating colloquial powers, also reflected much luster upon his name.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
He had traveled over Europe, and parts of the East, and possessed great colloquial powers when inclined to be sociable.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
In the Attic poetry which was written in direct imitation of colloquial speech, viz.
THE MODES OF ANCIENT GREEK MUSICDAVID BINNING MONRO
A "growler" is a colloquial term applied to icebergs of small mass, which therefore only show a small portion above the surface.
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP 'TITANIC'BRITISH GOVERNMENT
Newcomers soon pick -396-up a colloquial knowledge of the language by mixing with their schoolfellows.
It bears an inscription which seems to scan equally well in school-book Latin or colloquial Italian.
ITALIAN HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARFRANCIS MILTOUN
This statement is necessary to explain the colloquial character of the discourses.
WORDS RELATED TO COLLOQUIAL
- accepted
- banal
- bourgeois
- casual
- characteristic
- colloquial
- comformable
- commonplace
- conventional
- current
- customary
- daily
- everyday
- familiar
- frequent
- general
- habitual
- hackneyed
- homely
- humdrum
- informal
- mediocre
- monotonous
- natural
- passable
- plain
- prevailing
- prevalent
- probable
- prosaic
- regular
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- simple
- stale
- standard
- stereotyped
- stock
- trite
- trivial
- typical
- undistinguished
- universal
- unvaried
- usual
- wearisome
- workaday
- worn-out
- accepted
- banal
- bourgeois
- casual
- characteristic
- colloquial
- comformable
- commonplace
- conventional
- current
- customary
- daily
- everyday
- familiar
- frequent
- general
- habitual
- hackneyed
- homely
- humdrum
- informal
- mediocre
- monotonous
- natural
- passable
- plain
- prevailing
- prevalent
- probable
- prosaic
- regular
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- simple
- stale
- standard
- stereotyped
- stock
- trite
- trivial
- typical
- undistinguished
- universal
- unvaried
- usual
- wearisome
- workaday
- worn-out
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