Definitions of Vernacular [ərˈnæk yə lər, vəˈnæk-]

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Definition of 'Vernacular'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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

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

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

4.  vernacular
using plain, everyday language.

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

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

7. (n.) vernacular
the native speech or language of a place.

8.  vernacular
the distinctive vocabulary of a class or profession.

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

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

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

Etymology: (1595–1605; < L vernācul(us) household, domestic, native)

Definition of 'Vernacular'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
"they don't speak our lingo"

2. (adj) vernacular
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

3. (adj) common, vernacular, vulgar
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"

Definition of 'Vernacular'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Vernacular
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

2. (noun) Vernacular
the vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality

Translation of 'Vernacular'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: colloquial or informally conversational vernacular speech/language.
Afrikaans: informeel	Arabic: لُغَة دارِجَه	Bulgarian: местен (за език)
Brazilian: vernacular	Czech: hovorový	German: mundartlich
Danish: dagligdags sprog	Greek: καθομιλούμενος	Spanish: vernáculo, vulgar
Estonian: rahvakeelne	Farsi: بومی؛ محاوره ای	Finnish: kansankielinen
French: vernaculaire	Hebrew: הַשָפַה הַמְדוּבֶרֶת	Hindi: देशी भाषा का
Croatian: pučko (izražavanje)	Hungarian: népnyelvi, anyanyelvi	Indonesian: tidak resmi
Icelandic: sem lÿtur að mállÿsku/hve	Italian: colloquiale	Japanese: 日常語の
Korean: 일반 서민의 일상어를 쓰는	Lithuanian: šnekamasis	Latvian: dzimtais; mātes-; vietēja
Malay: vernakular	Dutch: spreek-, spreektaal-	Norwegian: folkelig, lokal-, omgangs
Polish: potoczny, nieliteracki	Portuguese: vernacular	Romanian: neaoş, autohton
Russian: просторечный	Slovak: hovorový	Slovenian: pogovoren
Serbian: narodski	Swedish: inhemsk, folklig, vardags	Thai: ซึ่งใช้ภาษาแบบเจ้าของภาษา
Turkish: halk dilinde, yerli lehçe	Taiwanese: 方言的	Ukrainian: просторічний; діалектний
Urdu: ديسي	Vietnamese: biệt ngữ	Chinese: 方言的，地方的
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