Sekirov Dictionary

vernacular

UK /vəˈnækjələ/US /vɚˈnækjəlɚ/

noun 6
adjective 5
forms 3

noun6

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The language of a people or a national language.
- The principal vernacular of the United States is English.
- The idea that the Bible should be translated into vernaculars was explosive in medieval society.
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Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
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Language unique to a particular group of people.
- For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
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Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
- Vatican II, a church council in the 1960s, allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
A language lacking standardization or a written form.

adjective5

Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
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Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
- An English vernacular name for Rosa multiflora is multiflora rose.
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

forms

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