vernacular
IPA: vɝnˈækjʌɫɝ
noun
- The language of a people or a national language.
- Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- Language unique to a particular group of people.
- A language lacking standardization or a written form.
- Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
- (architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles, not imported.
adjective
- 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.
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
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Examples of "vernacular" in Sentences
- I can speak two kinds of vernacular.
- Preemptive war is now in the common vernacular.
- Dante champions the poetic use of the vernacular tongue.
- It is the largest indigenous vernacular of the Solomon Islands.
- Most were performed in the vernacular of the country in question.
- A rise of nationalism also contributed to the rise of the vernacular.
- The house combines elements of vernacular architecture and eclecticism.
- It should not be confused with the vernacular of the Islands of the Clyde.
- They speak in the Australian vernacular, the common language of the street.
- It was disseminated in the media worldwide, and soon entered the vernacular.
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