vernacular

Plural: vernaculars

Noun

• a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
• the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
• The language of a people or a national language.
• Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
• Language unique to a particular group of people.
• A language lacking standardization or a written form.
• Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
• A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.

Adjective Satellite

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
  • "a vernacular term"
  • "vernacular speakers"

Adj

• Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
• Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
• Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
• Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
• Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.

Examples

• a vernacular disease
• An English vernacular name for Rosa multiflora is multiflora rose.
• For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
• Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
• The vernacular of the United States is English.
• Vatican II, a church council in the 1960s, allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.

Synonyms

argot, cant, common, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vulgar, folk, vulgar#Noun, vulgate#Noun

Antonyms

unvernacular

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