Vernacular

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language.
  • noun. A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region.
  • noun. The specialized vocabulary of a particular trade, profession, or group.
  • noun. The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.
  • adjective. Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.
  • adjective. Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language.
  • adjective. Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.
  • adjective. Of or being an indigenous building style using local materials and traditional methods of construction and ornament, especially as distinguished from academic or historical architectural styles.
  • adjective. Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic.
  • adjective. Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a biological species.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Native; indigenous; belonging to the country of one's birth; belonging to the speech that one naturally acquires: as, English is our vernacular language. The word is always, or almost always, used of the native language or ordinary idiom of a place.
  • Hence, specifically, characteristic of a locality: as, vernacular architecture.
  • noun. One's mother-tongue; the native idiom of a place; by extension, the language of a particular calling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.
  • adjective. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The language of a people, a national language.
  • noun. Everyday speech, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary or liturgical language.
  • noun. Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
  • noun. The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to everyday language.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
  • adjective. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
  • noun. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)