Vernacular

Quick meaning: Vernacular is a noun meaning The language of a people or a national language.

Meaning

The language of a people or a national language.

More Meanings

1. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
2. Language unique to a particular group of people.
3. A language lacking standardization or a written form.
4. Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
5. (architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
6. Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
7. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: basilect, demotic

Near-synonyms: jargon, argot, dialect, slang

The principal vernacular of the United States is English.

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

Word Forms

• vernaculars

Synonyms for vernacular

Depending on context, synonyms include vulgate, vulgar, basilect, demotic, jargon, argot.

Antonyms for vernacular

Common opposites include unvernacular.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lingo, jargon, cant, slang, common, argot.

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