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Vernacular - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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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]
(noun)
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)
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Vernacular : \Ver*nac"u*lar\, n.
The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the
common forms of expression in a particular locality.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue.
--Fuller.
Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted.
--Pope.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Vernacular |
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agentelaranja: a synthesis of European Catholicism with African Vernacular (Macumba in particular) |
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BryonyEvens: @soba_girl little voice pipes up 'AND A POO!' That phrase has entered the Vernacular in our house! |
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eatdorset: @Liliiux Lady, it is fortuitous is it not, to be ignorant of your banter? When speaking of "niggas" is it Vernacular for Afro-Americans? |
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