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vernacular
noun
(ver-nac-u-lar)
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
Synonyms:
argot
,
cant
,
jargon
,
lingo
,
patois
,
slang
,
vernacular
adjective
(ver-nac-u-lar)
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
Synonyms:
common
,
vulgar
,
Examples:
A vernacular term.
Vernacular speakers.
vernacular
noun
(ver-nac-u-lar)
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
Words Related to
vernacular
!
slang
,
lingo
,
argot
,
patois
,
jargon
,
vulgar
,
informal
,
common
,
cant
,
parlance
,
language
,
architecture
,
indigenous
,
local
,
native
,
standard
,
idiom
,
colloquialism
,
dialect
,
lingua franca
,
vocabulary
,
church slavonic
,
lexicon
,
vernacularism
,
vernaculous
,
pidgin
,
slanguage
,
neologism
,
coinages
,
cockneyism
,
endearment
,
sociolect
,
phrase
,
shorthand
,
italicism
,
bisayan
,
colloquial
,
lexicography
,
verb
,
ese
,
chaldaism
,
plurals
,
transdialect
,
hispanism
,
diphthongs
,
vocab
,
landsmal
,
portmanteau word
,
orthography
,
italianism
,
dictionary
,
vulgar latin
,
jargons
,
past participle
,
artificial language
,
bricolage
,
vulgarism
,
cusswords
,
lexis
,
rhyming slang
,
journalese
,
epithet
,
transitive verb
,
received pronunciation
,
metaphors
,
dorism
,
old church slavonic
,
injun
,
tildes
,
locution
,
pidgin english
,
idioglossia
,
flava
,
archaisms
,
idiomatic expression
,
culture
,
sinicism
,
onomatopoeia
,
grecism
,
devanagari
,
loanwords
,
classical latin
,
terminologies
,
italic language
,
iconography
,
phraseology
,
late latin
,
ebonics
,
noun
,
doggerel
,
etymologies
,
tushery
,
gerunds
,
sanskrit literature
,
grammar
,
latino sine flexione
,
basic english
,
milieu
,
scansion
,
early modern english
,
vernacular
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