Definitions for vernacular

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vernacular ver·nac·u·lar

Spelling: [ver-nak-yuh-ler, vuh-nak-]

IPA: /vərˈnæk yə lər, vəˈnæk-/

Vernacular is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 392 anagrams from letters in vernacular (aacelnrruv).

Definitions for vernacular

noun

1. the native speech or language of a place.
2. the language or vocabulary peculiar to a class or profession.
3. a vernacular word or expression.
4. the plain variety of language in everyday use by ordinary people.
5. the common name of an animal or plant as distinguished from its Latin scientific name.
6. a style of architecture exemplifying the commonest techniques, decorative features, and materials of a particular historical period, region, or group of people.
7. any medium or mode of expression that reflects popular taste or indigenous styles.

adjective

1. (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).
2. expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works:
3. using such a language:
4. of or relating to such a language.
5. using plain, everyday, ordinary language.
6. of, relating to, or characteristic of architectural vernacular.
7. noting or pertaining to the common name for a plant or animal.
8. Obsolete. (of a disease) endemic.

Origin of vernacular

1595-1605; Latin vernācul(us) household, domestic, native (apparently adj. use of vernāculus, diminutive of verna slave born in the master's household, though derivation unclear) + Examples for vernacular

The jokes are in the vernacular, but in a vernacular as spoken in a certain social medium.

Anytime boys, even girls, use femininity as a vernacular people are judged harshly.

Note as well their wily use of the word "stuff"—a bit of vernacular so the message doesn't get too grandiloquent.

She said this in the tone of one consciously assuming the vernacular.

“ Larging it,” is the term of art, just one of the pieces of Brit-lad vernacular that animates these pages.

"'It is not the custom,'" wearily quoted Kingozi in the vernacular.

And every word has a definition, even if the phrase is viewed as one way in the vernacular.

He was, if you will pardon the vernacular, on the outside, looking in.

This court is overrun with Jesuits, and we must needs adopt their vernacular.

It was amusing, it was in my vernacular, and the atmosphere held great emotional resonance for me.