noun🔗ShareThe language of a people or a national language."A vernacular of the United States is English."languagenationcultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareEveryday 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."languagelinguisticsliteratureculturecommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareLanguage 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."languagelinguisticsculturecommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA language lacking standardization or a written form."In the remote mountain village, the people speak a unique vernacular passed down through generations, with no formal grammar rules or written alphabet. "languagelinguisticscultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareIndigenous 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."languagelinguisticscommunicationcultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareOf or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom."The children spoke in a vernacular dialect at recess, using phrases their parents wouldn't understand. "languagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareBelonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous."a vernacular disease"languagenationculturelinguisticshistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareOf or related to local building materials and styles; not imported."The house was built using vernacular architecture, featuring locally sourced stone and a design common to the village. "architecturestylematerialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareConnected to a collective memory; not imported."The school's student council used vernacular expressions that were familiar to everyone in the community, but not common in the textbooks. "culturelanguagehistorytraditionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading