different between vernacular vs veteran

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)

1. The language of a people or a national language.

   A vernacular of the United States is English.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. A language lacking standardization or a written form.
5. 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)

1. Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
2. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.

   a vernacular disease

3. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
4. (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)

1. vernacular (pertaining to everyday language)

   Synonym: vernáculo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French vétéran, from Latin veter?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?.t?.??n/, /?v?.t??n/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?v?.t??.??n], [?v?.??.??n]

Noun

veteran (plural veterans)

1. A person with long experience of a particular activity.
2. (figuratively) A group, animal, etc. with long experience of a particular activity.
3. A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service; also called a war veteran to distinguish from veterans that weren't in armed conflict.

Derived terms

• veteran car
• Veterans Day

Translations

Adjective

veteran (not comparable)

1. Having had long experience, practice, or service.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist

     “That was in Casco,” his wife contradicted immediately. She spoke in the unmistakable tones of a veteran contradictor.

2. Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.

Related terms

• inveterate

Translations

Anagrams

• Neretva, Trevena, aventre, nervate, vernate

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin veter?nus (“old, veteran”), from vetus (“aged, ancient, old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vet?ra?n/, [vet???????n]

Noun

veteran c (singular definite veteranen, plural indefinite veteraner)

1. veteran

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “veteran” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “veteran” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Esperanto

Adjective

veteran

1. accusative singular of vetera

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin veter?nus.

Noun

veteran m (definite singular veteranen, indefinite plural veteraner, definite plural veteranene)

1. veteran

Derived terms

References

• “veteran” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin veter?nus.

Noun

veteran m (definite singular veteranen, indefinite plural veteranar, definite plural veteranane)

1. veteran

Derived terms

References

• “veteran” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Piedmontese

Noun

veteran m (plural veteran)

1. veteran

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vétéran, Latin veter?nus. Compare b?trân, a doublet inherited from the same source.

Noun

veteran m (plural veterani)

1. veteran (person who has served in the armed forces, or figuratively a person with a long experience of a particular activity; also used in the context of Ancient Rome, referring to a freed soldier granted citizenship and privileges for his service)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin veter?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?et?ra?n/
• Hyphenation: ve?te?ran

Noun

vetèr?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. veteran

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin veter?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t??r??n/

Noun

veteran c

1. a veteran (former member of armed forces)
2. a veteran (person with long experience)

Declension

Derived terms

• veteranbil