| English > English | |
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| vernacular | |
| 1. n. The language of a people or a national language. |  |
| A vernacular of the United States is English. | |
| 2. n. Everyday 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. | |
| 3. n. Language 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. | |
| 4. n. (Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated. | |
| Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular. | |
| 5. adj. Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom. | |
| 6. adj. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous. | |
| a vernacular disease | |
| 7. adj. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported. | |
| 8. adj. (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported. | |
