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Definition vernacular

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)�).

Noun

vernacular (plural vernaculars)

1. The language of a people or a national language.
2. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
3. Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
4. A language lacking standardization or a written form.
5. (Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.

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.
3. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
4. (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

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