Definitions for vernacular
vərˈnæk yə lər, vəˈnæk-ver·nac·u·lar

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.7 / 3 votes

1. slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacularnoun

   a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

   "they don't speak our lingo"

2. vernacularadjective

   the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

3. common, vernacular, vulgaradjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vernacularnoun

   The language of a people, a national language.

   The vernacular of the United States is English.

2. vernacularnoun

   Everyday speech, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary or liturgical language.

   Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.

3. vernacularnoun

   Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.

   For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.

4. vernacularnoun

   The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Roman Catholic mass are translated.

   Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.

5. vernacularadjective

   Of or pertaining to everyday language.

6. Etymology: From vernaculus, from verna.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Vernacularadjective

   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. Vernacularnoun

   the vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality

3. Etymology: [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.]

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1. Vernacular

   A vernacular is the native language or native dialect of a specific population, as opposed to a language of wider communication that is a second language or foreign language to the population, such as a national language, standard language, or lingua franca.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Vernacular

   ver-nak′ū-lar, adj. native: belonging to the country of one's birth.—n. one's mother-tongue.—n. Vernacularisā′tion, the act of making vernacular.—v.t. Vernac′ularise, to make vernacular.—ns. Vernac′ularism, a vernacular word or idiom, the use of such; Vernacular′ity, an idiom.—adv. Vernac′ularly.—v.t. Vernac′ulate, to express in a vernacular idiom.—adj. Vernac′ulous, scurrilous. [L. vernaculus—verna, a home-born slave.]

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1. • Non-standard Speech

How to pronounce vernacular?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say vernacular in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of vernacular in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of vernacular in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of vernacular in a Sentence

1. Abdulkadir Mohamed Sheikh:

   Students have coped well with the new curriculum because it is based on their religion, culture and vernacular.

2. The Don:

   I think its best to have an NBA guy, youre coaching NBA guys. I worked with coach (Mike) Krzyzewski on the select team and I had great respect for him. After having done that with an NBA coach, I have even more respect for what he did with the NBA guys. Its just a totally different game. Just watching how Pop can communicate with them. How quickly he can get things done with them, based on the NBA game. You have a short period of time to get ready and theres an NBA vernacular with basketball that you can get things across real quick.

3. Bill Ferguson:

   I played football in college and high school. He was brought up on it, it's a vernacular for us, a way for us to get together and have something to talk about.

4. Geoffrey Latham:

   Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

5. Raymond Chandler:

   Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

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