Vernacular

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The standard native language of a country or locality.
  • n. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language. See Synonyms at dialect.
  • n. A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region: the vernaculars of New York City.
  • n. The idiom of a particular trade or profession: in the legal vernacular.
  • n. An idiomatic word, phrase, or expression.
  • n. The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.
  • adj. Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.
  • adj. Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language: a vernacular poet.
  • adj. Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.
  • adj. 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.
  • adj. Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic: a vernacular disease.
  • adj. Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The language of a people, a national language.
  • n. Everyday speech, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary or liturgical language.
  • n. Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
  • n. The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to everyday language.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language.
  • n. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.
    • 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.
  • n. One's mother-tongue; the native idiom of a place; by extension, the language of a particular calling.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
  • adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
  • n. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
    • Equivalent
    informal   
    Antonym
    literary    learned    lingua franca   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    non-standard speech   
    Cross Reference
    native    vernacular disease   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    native    indigenous    living    vulgar    trivial   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    spectacular    unspectacular   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Gaelic    idiom    dialect    metrical    slang   
     
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