About The Word Vernacular
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Vernacular
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What's The Definition Of Vernacular?
[n] the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
[n] a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Vernacular: argot | cant | common | informal | jargon | lingo | patois | slang | vulgar Related Terms | Find terms related to Vernacular: See Also | non-standard speech | rhyming slang Vernacular In Webster's Dictionary \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.
His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue.
--Fuller.
Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted.
--Pope.
\Ver*nac"u*lar\, n. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality. |
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