Vulgar : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Vulgar	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vulgar adj lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" Synonym(s): coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" Synonym(s): common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed 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 conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" Synonym(s): crude, earthy, gross, vulgar
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vulgar \Vul"gar\, a. [L. vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude, the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. vulgaire. Cf. {Divulge}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. [bd]As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. [b8] -- Shak. Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise. --Milton. It might be more useful to the English reader . . . to write in our vulgar language. --Bp. Fell. The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class. --Bancroft. 2. Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value. [bd]Like the vulgar sort of market men.[b8] --Shak. Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life. --Addison. In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter. --Rambler. 3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. --Shak. {Vulgar fraction}. (Arith.) See under {Fraction}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vulgar \Vul"gar\, n. [Cf. F. vulgaire.] 1. One of the common people; a vulgar person. [Obs.] These vile vulgars are extremely proud. --Chapman. 2. The vernacular, or common language. [Obs.]