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English Dictionary: Vernacular	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Vernacular
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" Synonym(s): common, vernacular, vulgar n a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" Synonym(s): slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vernacular \Vernac"ular\, 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. [bd]A vernacular disease.[b8] --Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. --Fuller. Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vernacular \Vernac"ular\, n. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.