'Vernacular' definitions:
Definition of 'vernacular'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: common, vernacular, vulgar]
noun
A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular]
noun
The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
Definition of 'Vernacular'
From: GCIDE
- Vernacular \Ver*nac"u*lar\, a. [L. vernaculus born in one's house, native, fr. verna a slave born in his master's house, a native, probably akin to Skr. vas to dwell, E. was.] Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." --Harvey. [1913 Webster]
- His skill in the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Vernacular'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'vernacular'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aboriginal,
- accustomed,
- ancient language,
- argot,
- austerity,
- autochthonous,
- average,
- Babbittish,
- 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,
- Philistine,
- 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