Thesaurus: vernacular

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1. a. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
2. n. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
3. adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
4. n. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
5. n. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
6. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. Fuller. Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. Pope. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
7. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth ornature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as,English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey.His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. Fuller.Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. Pope.
8. j:49/n:51 n. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)