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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (gcide)
Vernacular \Ver*nac"u*lar\, n.
The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the
common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed
to {literary} or {learned} forms.
[1913 Webster + PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 (wn)
vernacular
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" [syn: {common}, {vulgar}]
n 1: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among
thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: {cant}, {jargon},
{slang}, {lingo}, {argot}, {patois}]
2: the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from
literary language)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 (moby-thes)
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "vernacular":
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
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