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.

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.

adjective. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language.

noun. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.

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.

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)

"The next question intends to look at the respondents own private position on the question of whether the option to do the liturgical readings directly in the vernacular is a good or a bad thing."

learned  lingua franca  literary  

native  vernacular disease  

informal  

non-standard speech  

spectacular  unspectacular  

Bengali  Elizabethan  Gaelic  Mayan  Tibetan  

Babbittish  Philistine  aboriginal  accustomed  ancient language