vulgar

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See also vulgär, and vulgær

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Middle English, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (mob; common folk), from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k- (compare Welsh gwala (plenty, sufficiency), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halia, assembly) εἰλέω (eileō,  to compress), Old Church Slavonic вєликъ (velikŭ, great).

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vulgar (comparative vulgarer or more vulgar, superlative vulgarest or most vulgar)

  1. Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
    • The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.
  2. (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
    • 1860, G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis‎, age 265
      Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.

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From Latin vulgāris.

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vulgar m. and f. (plural vulgares)

  1. common to the people, vulgar
  2. ordinary, undistinguished
  3. popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical
  4. simple, unintelligent

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Latin vulgaris

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vulgar mn nom/acc forms

  1. vulgar

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From Latin vulgāris.

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vulgar m. and f. (plural vulgares)

  1. vulgar

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