English
Noun
Vernacular (plural Vernaculars)
- The language of a people, a national language.
- The vernacular of the United States is English.
- Everyday speech, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary or liturgical language.
- Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
- Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
- For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
- (Christianity, uncountable) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Roman Catholic mass are translated.
- Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
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Adjective
Vernacular (comparative more Vernacular, superlative most Vernacular)
- Of or pertaining to everyday language.
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Thesaurus
Babbittish, Philistine, aboriginal, accustomed, ancient language, argot, austerity, autochthonous, average, baldness, bareness, bourgeois, campy, candor, cant, classical language, colloquial, colloquial speech, colloquial usage, colloquialism, common, common speech, commonplace, confined, conventional, conversational, conversationalism, current, customary, dead language, directness, easy, endemic, everyday, familiar, frankness, general, geographically limited, gibberish, gobbledygook, habitual, high-camp, homebred, homegrown, homely, homespun, household, household words, idiom, illiterate speech, indigenous, informal, informal English, informal language, informal speech, insular, jargon, kitschy, language, leanness, limited, lingo, living language, local, localized, low-camp, matter-of-factness, mother tongue, mumbo jumbo, natal, native, native language, native speech, native tongue, native-born, naturalness, nonstandard, normative, of a place, openness, ordinary, original, parent language, parochial, patois, patter, phraseology, plain, plain English, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, plebeian, pop, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, primitive, prosaicness, prosiness, provincial, public, regional, regular, regulation, restrainedness, rustic style, scatology, severity, simple, simpleness, simplicity, slang, soberness, spareness, speech, spoken, spoken language, standard, starkness, stock, straightforward, straightforwardness, substandard, substandard language, taboo language, talk, topical, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, uneducated, unimaginativeness, universal, unliterary, unpoeticalness, unstudied, usual, vernacularism, vocabulary, vulgar, vulgar language, vulgar tongue, vulgate, wonted
Etymology
From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”) < verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /vəˈnæk.jə.lə/, /vəˈnæk.jʊ.lə/
- (US) IPA: /vɚˈnæk.jə.lɚ/
Translations
Noun
language unique to a particular group of people
(christianity) indigenous language of a people
Adjective
pertaining to everyday language
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