Found 2 items, similar to Vernacular.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: vernacular vernacular n 1: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); “they don't speak our lingo” [syn: cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois] 2: the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) vernacular adj : 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” [syn: common, vulgar]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Vernacular Vernacular \Ver*nac"u*lar\, a. [L. vernaculus born in one's house, native, fr. verna a slave born in his master's house, a native, probably akin to Skr. vas to dwell, E. was.] 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. [1913 Webster] His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Vernacular \Ver*nac"u*lar\, n. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality. [1913 Webster]