vernacular

ver·nac·u·lar  (vr-nky-lr)

n.

1. The standard native language of a country or locality.

2.

a. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language. See Synonyms at dialect.

b. A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region: the vernaculars of New York City.

3. The idiom of a particular trade or profession: in the legal vernacular.

4. An idiomatic word, phrase, or expression.

5. The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.

adj.

1. Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.

2. Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language: a vernacular poet.

3. Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.

4. Of or being an indigenous building style using local materials and traditional methods of construction and ornament, especially as distinguished from academic or historical architectural styles.

5. Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic: a vernacular disease.

6. Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.

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[From Latin vernculus, native, from verna, native slave, perhaps of Etruscan origin.]

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ver·nacu·lar·ly adv.

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vernacular [ver-nak-yew-lar]

Noun

the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place

Adjective

in or using the vernacular [Latin vernaculus belonging to a household slave]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	vernacular - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" jargon, lingo, patois, argot, slang, cant bite - a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck" swiz - British slang for a swindle heist, rip-off - the act of stealing shakedown - extortion of money (as by blackmail) power trip - (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screwing, shtup, ass, shag, screw - slang for sexual intercourse blowjob, cock sucking - slang for fellatio hand job, jacking off, jerking off, wank - slang for masturbation dekko - British slang for a look square-bashing - drill on a barracks square shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs" caff - informal British term for a cafe deck - street name for a packet of illegal drugs gat, rod - a gangster's pistol Mickey Finn - slang term for knockout drops nick - (British slang) a prison; "he's in the nick" dreck, schlock, shlock - merchandise that is shoddy or inferior cert - an absolute certainty; "it's a dead cert" legs - staying power; "that old Broadway play really has legs" soup-strainer, toothbrush - slang for a mustache arsehole, bunghole, arse, asshole - vulgar slang for anus bay window, potbelly, tummy, corporation, pot - slang for a paunch niff, pong - an unpleasant smell street name - slang for something (especially for an illegal drug); "`smack' is a street name for heroin" corker - (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person; "that story was a corker" hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, stuff - senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing codswallop, folderol, trumpery, wish-wash, applesauce, tripe, rubbish, trash - nonsensical talk or writing skin flick - a pornographic movie dibs - a claim of rights; "I have dibs on that last slice of pizza" non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community rhyming slang - slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component; "Cockney rhyming slang" bun-fight, bunfight - (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion burnup - a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road nosh-up - a large satisfying meal hood - (slang) a neighborhood 'hood - (slang) a neighborhood paleface - (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians) poor white trash, white trash - (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished honkey, honkie, honky, whitey - (slang) offensive names for a White man slant-eye, gook - (slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War) Injun, red man, Redskin - (slang) offensive term for Native Americans hymie, kike, sheeny, yid - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew
	2.	vernacular - the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
Adj.	1.	vernacular - 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" vulgar, common informal - used of spoken and written language

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vernacular

noun 1. (with the) speech, jargon, idiom, parlance, cant, native language, dialect, patois, argot, vulgar tongue

adjective 2. colloquial, popular, informal, local, common, native, indigenous, vulgar

Translations

vernacular [vəˈnækjuləʳ] n → lengua vernácula

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vernacular [vəˈnækjuləʳ] n → langue f vernaculaire, dialecte m

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vernacular [vəˈnækjuləʳ] n (of country) → Landessprache f;

(of region) → Dialekt m

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vernacular [vəˈnækjuləʳ] n → vernacolo