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ver·nac·u·lar

(vər-năk′yə-lər)

a. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language.

b. A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region: the vernaculars of New York City.

2. The specialized vocabulary of a particular trade, profession, or group: in the legal vernacular.

3. The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.

adj.

1. Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.

2. Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language: a vernacular poet.

3. Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.

4. Of or being an indigenous building style using local materials and traditional methods of construction and ornament, especially as distinguished from academic or historical architectural styles.

5. Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic: a vernacular disease.

6. Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a biological species.

[From Latin vernāculus, native, from verna, native slave, perhaps of Etruscan origin.]

ver·nac′u·lar·ly adv.

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vernacular

(vəˈnækjʊlə)

1. (Linguistics) the vernacular the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place

2. (Architecture) a local style of architecture, in which ordinary houses are built: this architect has re-created a true English vernacular.

adj

3. relating to, using, or in the vernacular

4. (Biology) designating or relating to the common name of an animal or plant

5. (Architecture) built in the local style of ordinary houses, rather than a grand architectural style

[C17: from Latin vernāculus belonging to a household slave, from verna household slave]

verˈnacularly adv

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ver•nac•u•lar

(vərˈnæk yə lər, vəˈnæk-)

adj.

1. (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).

2. expressed or written in the native language of a place.

3. of, pertaining to, or using such a language.

4. using plain, everyday language.

5. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of architectural vernacular.

6. of or pertaining to the common name for a plant, animal, or other organism.

7. the native speech or language of a place.

8. the distinctive vocabulary of a class or profession.

9. the plain variety of language in everyday use by ordinary people.

10. the common name of a plant, animal, or other organism as distinguished from its Latin scientific name.

11. a style of architecture exemplifying the commonest techniques, decorative features, and materials of a particular historical period, region, or group of people.

[1595–1605; < Latin vernācul(us) household, domestic, native]

ver•nac′u•lar•ly, adv.

syn: See language.

vernacular

Used to describe the everyday language used by ordinary people.

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Noun	1.	vernacular - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" jargon, lingo, patois, argot, slang, cant bite - a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck" swiz - British slang for a swindle heist, rip-off - the act of stealing shakedown - extortion of money (as by blackmail) power trip - (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people nookie, nooky, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screwing, screw - slang for sexual intercourse dekko - British slang for a look square-bashing - drill on a barracks square shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs" caff - informal British term for a cafe deck - street name for a packet of illegal drugs gat, rod - a gangster's pistol Mickey Finn - slang term for knockout drops nick - (British slang) a prison; "he's in the nick" dreck, schlock, shlock - merchandise that is shoddy or inferior cert - an absolute certainty; "it's a dead cert" legs - staying power; "that old Broadway play really has legs" soup-strainer, toothbrush - slang for a mustache bunghole - vulgar slang for anus bay window, potbelly, tummy, corporation, pot - slang for a paunch niff, pong - an unpleasant smell street name - slang for something (especially for an illegal drug); "`smack' is a street name for heroin" corker - (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person; "that story was a corker" hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, stuff - senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing codswallop, folderol, trumpery, wish-wash, applesauce, tripe, rubbish, trash - nonsensical talk or writing skin flick - a pornographic movie dibs - a claim of rights; "I have dibs on that last slice of pizza" non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community rhyming slang - slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component; "Cockney rhyming slang" bunfight, bun-fight - (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion burnup - a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road nosh-up - a large satisfying meal hood - (slang) a neighborhood 'hood - (slang) a neighborhood airhead - a flighty scatterbrained simpleton; "she's a total airhead"; "every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one" babe, sister, baby - (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women bad egg - (old-fashioned slang) a bad person boffin - (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research good egg - (old-fashioned slang) a good person guvnor - (British slang) boss old man - (slang) boss out-and-outer - someone who is excellent at something schlockmeister, shlockmeister - (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise squeeze - (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend; "she was his main squeeze" suit - (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the suits care about is the bottom line" tripper - (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations juice - electric current; "when the wiring was finished they turned on the juice" big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile, bundle - a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" key - a kilogram of a narcotic drug; "they were carrying two keys of heroin" skinful - a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk; "someone had to drive me home last night because I had a skinful" juice - energetic vitality; "her creative juices were flowing" the trots - obscene terms for diarrhea heebie-jeebies, jitters, screaming meemies - extreme nervousness
	2.	vernacular - the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
Adj.	1.	vernacular - 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" vulgar, common informal - used of spoken and written language

vernacular

noun

1. speech, jargon, idiom, parlance, cant, native language, dialect, patois, argot, vulgar tongue To use the vernacular of the day, Peter was square.

adjective

1. colloquial, popular, informal, local, common, native, indigenous, vulgar dialects such as black vernacular English

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vernacular

noun

1. A system of terms used by a people sharing a history and culture:

dialect, language, speech, tongue.

Linguistics: langue.

2. A variety of a language that differs from the standard form:

argot, cant, dialect, jargon, lingo, patois.

3. Specialized expressions indigenous to a particular field, subject, trade, or subculture:

argot, cant, dialect, idiom, jargon, language, lexicon, lingo, patois, terminology, vocabulary.

Translations

لُغَة دارِجَهلُغَة عامِيَّه ، لُغَة مَحْكِيَّه

hovorovýnářečí

dagligdags sprogdialekt

Mundart mundartlich

langue vernaculaire vernaculaire vulgaire

nemzeti nyelvnépnyelvi

òjóîtunga; mál alòÿîunnar

vernacolo

vietinė kalba

dzimtaismātes-vietējā valoda/dialektsvietējais

folkemål lokal-muntlig språk

halk dilihalk dilindeyerli lehçeyerli lehçede

地方的方言方言的

vernacular

[vəˈnækjʊləʳ]

A. ADJ

1. (Ling) → vernáculo, vulgar
in vernacular Persian → en persa vulgar, en la lengua vernácula de Persia

2. [architecture] → típico, local, regional

B. N (Ling) → lengua f vernácula (fig) → lenguaje m corriente, lenguaje m vulgar

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vernacular

[və^rˈnækjʊlə^r] n (= dialect) → dialecte m

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vernacular

(= dialect) → Mundart f; (= not Latin, not official language) → Landessprache f; this word has now come into the vernacular → dieses Wort ist jetzt in die Alltagssprache eingegangen

(= jargon) → Fachsprache f → or -jargon m

(hum: = strong language) → deftige Sprache; please excuse the vernacular → entschuldigen Sie bitte, dass ich mich so drastisch ausdrücke

(Archit) → traditioneller Baustil

adj

vernacular newspaper → Zeitung f → in der regionalen Landessprache; vernacular language → mundartliche Sprache; vernacular poet → Mundartdichter(in) m(f)

(Archit) → traditionell

(= indigenous) style → traditionell; crafts, furniture → einheimisch

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vernacular

[vəˈnækjʊləʳ]

1. n → vernacolo

2. adj → vernacolare

vernacular

(vəˈnӕkjulə) adjective

colloquial or informally conversational. vernacular speech/language.

noun

the common informal language of a country etc as opposed to its formal or literary language. They spoke to each other in the vernacular of the region.

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'The Search is at an end for me,' shouted Kim in the vernacular. 'I have found the Bull, but God knows what comes next.

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"Tarzan!" she exclaimed, and then, in the vernacular of the great apes which constant association with the anthropoids had rendered the common language of the Oparians: "You have come back to me!

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"I am Tarzan of the Apes," he answered in the vernacular of the anthropoids.

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Bettles was the spokesman, and his argument, tersely and offensively vernacular, was unanimously applauded.

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[Footnote: The name, given by their enemies, perhaps means 'tares.'] It was inevitable not only that he and his associates should compose many tracts and sermons for the furtherance of their views, but, considering their attitude toward the Bible, that they should wish to put it into the hands of all the people in a form which they would be able to understand, that is in their own vernacular English.

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Thus I was given to understand that he was the captain, the "Old Man," in the cook's vernacular, the individual whom I must interview and put to the trouble of somehow getting me ashore.

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Then in the local vernacular: "What are your rights to the beating?"

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Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones, thruffsteans or through-stones, as they call them in Whitby vernacular, actually project over where the sustaining cliff has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight.

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Strickland looked at me above the rifle, and said, in the vernacular: "Thou art witness to this saying.

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Thus he spoke in the vernacular: - "Colonel Sahib and officers of this regiment.

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"Monsieur my brother, doth it please you that I shall explain in good French vernacular that Greek word which is written yonder on the wall?"

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"Soon you will kill--and feed," he murmured in the vernacular of the great apes.