English Explanatory Dictionary

vernacular

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The language of a people or a national language.
  2. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
  3. Language unique to a particular group of people.
  4. A language lacking standardization or a written form.
  5. Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
  6. A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
adj
  1. Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
  2. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
  3. Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
  4. Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
  5. Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.

Pronunciation

/vəˈnækjələ/ /vəˈnækjʊlə/ /vɚˈnækjəlɚ/ en-us-vernacular.ogg en-au-vernacular.ogg

Word forms

vernacular vernaculars more vernacular most vernacular

Etymology

From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).

Synonyms

vulgate vulgar basilect demotic jargon argot dialect slang common everyday indigenous ordinary colloquial basilectal native endemic folk

Antonyms

unvernacular

Derived words

vernacular architecture vernacular dance vernacular dialect vernacularism vernacularist vernacular language vernacular name vernacular school vernacular variety
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