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vernacular
English
Etymology
From Latin vern?culus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /v??nækj?l?/, /v??nækj?l?/
- (US) IPA(key): /v??nækj?l?/
- Rhymes: -ækj?l?(?)
- Hyphenation: ver?nac?u?lar
Noun
vernacular (plural vernaculars)
- The language of a people or a national language.
- A vernacular of the United States is English.
- 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.
- Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
- For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
- A language lacking standardization or a written form.
- Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
- Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
Synonyms
- (language unique to a group): dialect, idiom, argot, jargon, slang
- (language of a people): vulgate
Antonyms
- (national language): lingua franca, link language, vehicular language
Translations
Adjective
vernacular (comparative more vernacular, superlative most vernacular)
- Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
- a vernacular disease
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
Synonyms
- (of everyday language): common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial
- (architecture): folk
Derived terms
- neo-vernacular
- vernacularism
- vernacularist
Translations
Further reading
- vernacular in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vernacular in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vernacular at OneLook Dictionary Search
Portuguese
Adjective
vernacular m or f (plural vernaculares, comparable)
- vernacular (pertaining to everyday language)
- Synonym: vernáculo
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slangy
English
Etymology
slang +? -y
Adjective
slangy (comparative slangier, superlative slangiest)
- Including or given to slang.
Synonyms
- slangular (archaic)
Derived terms
- nonslangy
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