vernacular
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From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
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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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- (national language): lingua franca
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national language
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everyday speech
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language unique to a particular group of people
(christianity) indigenous language of a people
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[edit] Adjective
vernacular (comparative more vernacular, superlative most vernacular)
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- (of everyday language): common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar
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pertaining to everyday language
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[edit] External links
- vernacular in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- vernacular in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- vernacular at OneLook Dictionary Search
