vernacular
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- noun
- /vərˈnækjələr/
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lengua vernácula
- Indeed, "vice" is common in the local vernacular in reference to the activities for which the city is known.
- modern vernacular
- everyday vernacular
- common vernacular
Of course, in your vernacular, I was chased out.
- Of course, in your vernacular, I was chased out.
- And there's a saying in a popular colloquialism in today's vernacular, it is what it is.
- So I feel very well versed in the MCU universe vernacular.
- And that beautiful story is not part of our cultural vernacular.
- You know, they, they put it in the grossest Hollywood vernacular.
- Another way to say it in the Stoic vernacular is to have his will in accordance with the way things turn out.
- But but that they have, I know that just like in whatever language there is, there's kind of like a vernacular that is common.
- Oh, I'm so glad to learn the casual slang sense of curse that this is how I learn things, how the youth speak in today's vernacular.
Examples
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We have to communicate in a vernacular that the police will understand.
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To use a term from the current vernacular, teachers have an awesome responsibility.
Academic text (1991) -
But when she comes to speak, she speaks in vernacular English.
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And by the way, your command of the American vernacular is superb.
Fiction book (1991) -
Bob Strong, who worked at Guard headquarters... ...says the memos are written in the vernacular of the Guard at the time.
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Thus emerged the possibility of writing in the vernacular, where the low can be treated with high seriousness.
Academic text (1999) -
Somehow, in colonial America, the term broadside came to be the vernacular for a form of public announcement.
Academic text (1990) -
Students in the ensembles also seemed fluent with words outside the common vernacular of music terms.
Academic text (2015) -
To be sure, there is something to Anderson's observations; the vernacular does signify something larger than localized languages.
Academic text (1997) -
When he visits his hometown, he enjoys hearing the local vernacular that brings back fond memories.
Synonyms
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A form of language used in one area or group with its own words, grammar, and sounds
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9.9
A way of speaking that people in a place or group use, different from the standard language
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7.4
A way of speaking used by people in one area
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A way of speaking English with its own grammar, sounds, and words used by many African Americans
- Specialized
A way of speaking English used by many Black people in the United States with its own sounds and grammar
- Specialized
A variety of American English many Black people speak, with different pronunciation, grammar, and words
- Specialized
A way of speaking English used by many African Americans with its own grammar, words, and sounds
- Specialized
Art made by people without formal training that shows local traditions and everyday life
How Everyday
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vernacular comes from an old Latin word vernaculus meaning 'native' or 'of the home'. So the vernacular is the 'home language' — the everyday speech people in a region or group use, which is why it means the local, ordinary language.