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Defenition of the word vernacular

    • Defenition of the word vernacular

      • Language or dialect native to a region, as distinct from the standard language.
      • a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
      • 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"
      • the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
      • a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don''t speak our lingo"
      • a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
      • being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

    Synonyms for the word vernacular

      • argot
      • cant
      • colloquial speech
      • common
      • dialect
      • jargon
      • language
      • lingo
      • lingua franca
      • patois
      • slang
      • vulgar

    Similar words in the vernacular

      • informal
      • vernacular
      • vernaculars

    Hyponyms for the word vernacular

      • rhyming slang
      • street name

    Hypernyms for the word vernacular

      • non-standard speech

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