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Definitions: Vernacular |
VernacularAdjective1. Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species". Noun1. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo". 2. The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vernacular" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: VernacularSynonyms: common (adj), vulgar (adj), argot (n), cant (n), jargon (n), lingo (n), patois (n), slang (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood. |
Inhabitant | Adjective: indigenous; native, natal; autochthonal, autochthonous; British; English; American; Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh; domestic; domiciliated, domiciled; naturalized, vernacular, domesticated; domiciliary. |
Interiority | Home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular; endemic. |
Language | Noun: language; phraseology; speech; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect. |
Adjective: lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot, hexaglot, polyglot; literary. | |
Neologism | Substandard language, vernacular. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vernacular |
| English words defined with "vernacular": Black English Vernacular ♦ common ♦ Demotic ♦ Farse ♦ macaronic ♦ Nonvernacular ♦ quaint ♦ racily, romaic ♦ Vernacularism, Vernacularization, Vernacularly, Vernaculous, vulgar ♦ Yiddish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vernacular": ASCIIbonics ♦ bog muck ♦ Commodious, Convenient ♦ driller's log, drilling report. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "vernacular": Vernaculous, Vernile. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | To put it in the vernacular, who you gonna call? (Extreme Ghostbusters; writing credit: Brooks Wachtel) Drop the vernacular. (Disorder in the Court; writing credit: Felix Adler) | |
Lyrics | Another big news story of year concerned the ecumenical council in Rome, known as Vatican II. Among the things they did in an attempt to make the church more commercial was to introduce the vernacular into portions of the mass, to replace Latin, and to widen somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy, but I feel that if they really want to sell the product, in this secular age, what they ought to do is to redo some of the liturgical music in popular song forms. ("The Vatican Rag"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
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Civil Liberties | Nepal | There are hundreds of independent vernacular and English-language newspapers available, representing various political points of view. (references) |
India | In July 2000, alleged members of the CPI(M) severely beat a team of three reporters and a cameraman of ETV, a new vernacular cable television channel. (references) | |
India | Nonviolent pressure on journalists comes from official sources as well: the editor of the vernacular daily newspaper Naharolgi Thoudang was arrested in 2000 on charges of indulging in antinational activities. (references) | |
Economic History | France | The French language derives from the vernacular Latin spoken by the Romans in Gaul, although it includes many Celtic and Germanic words. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Major vernacular newspapers include Dinamina, Silumina, Divayina, and Lankadeepa, all in Sinhala; and Thinakaran and Virakesari, in Tamil. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vernacular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 51.01% of the time. "Vernacular" is used about 198 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 51.01% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Noun (singular) | 48.99% | 97 | 33,269 |
| Total | 100.00% | 198 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vernacular": black English Vernacular ♦ vernacular disease ♦ vernacular tongue. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "vernacular": non-vernacular. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vernacular | 34 |
vernacular architecture | 12 |
design vernacular | 8 |
black english vernacular | 5 |
architecture forum vernacular | 3 |
literature vernacular | 3 |
definition vernacular | 3 |
language vernacular | 3 |
dance vernacular | 2 |
modernity vernacular | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vernacular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjuhë e përditshme, gjuhë e folur, gjuhë amëtare (first language, mother tongue), e përditshme, e folur (spoken), amëtar (home, Natal, native). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لغة عامية (argot), لغة إقليم أو منطقة, عامية (colloquial, slang, vulgarity), عامي (base, colloquial, informal, plebeian, slang, slangy, vulgar, yearly), الإسم الدارج. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ругатни (abuse, abusive language, bluster, bugaboo, invectives, obloquy, profanity), роден език, роден (born, borne, domestic, german, germane, home, home-bred, native, natural, own, whole), народен език, народен (demotic, folk, national, popular, public, vulgar), написан на роден език, написан на народен език, местен говор (doric, patois), местен (aboriginal, home grown, indigenous, local, locative, native, native born, provincial, regional, resident, sectional, topical, vicinal, vulgar), жаргон на дадена професия, ендемичен (endemic), диалект (dialect, idiom, speech). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 白話 , 白话. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rodný jazyk, nářeèní, nářeèí (dialect, speech), místní dialekt, místní (grass roots, local), hantýrka (argot, jargon, lingo, parlance, slang), domácí (brownie, domestic, domiciliary, home, homegrown, homelike, homemade, home-made, indoor, inland, internal, native, tame), žargon (cant, jargon, lingo, parlance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محلی (Autochthonous, Native, Residential, Territorial), کشوری (Civic, State), زبان مادری , زبان بومی , بومی (Aborigine, Autochthonous, Domestic, Indigenous, Native). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kansankieli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vernaculaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mundart (dialect, idiom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθομιλουμένη (colloquial), ιδιωματικόσ (idiomatic), ιδιωματική γλώσσα, λαϊκή γλώσσα (slang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשון מ"וברת (colloquial), לשון ""בור, של שפת ""בור, שפת "מקום, ע'" (argot, dialect, patois, slang), "בורי (colloquial, oral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nemzeti nyelv. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | volgare (broad, caddish, coarse, common, everyday, gross, low, lowbrow, Randy, rude, trivial, vulgar), vernacolo, vernacolare, locale (home-born, local, locally, native, place, premises, regional, resident, room, topic, topical), indigeno (aboriginal, aborigine, autochthonal, autochthonous, home-born, indigenous, native). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dooie (complement, endemic, full-blooded, good-natured, inborn, inherent, kind, natural, patriotic, species, true-born), dooghyssagh (ancestral, congenital, heritable, idiomatic, inborn, inherent, instinctive, native, natural, unforced), chengey ghooie, chengey ghooghyssagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ernacularvay vernáculo, língua nacional, língua materna (native language, native town, on the mother's side), língua do país. (various references) local (home, local, parochial, regional, topical), limbã maternã (the mother tongue), indigen (aboriginal, aborigine, domestic, home, home-bred, indigenous, native), expresie tare, endemic (endemic), dialect local, înjurãturã (abuse, curse, cuss, damn, oath), în limba sau dialectul matern, în limba sau dialectul local. (various references) родной язык (mother tongue), туземный (aboriginal, indigenous, nat native, native, native born), народный (demotic, folk, national, people's, popular, vulgar), местный (indigenous, local, locative, native, parochial, regional, topic, topical, vicinal). (various references) svakidašnji (everyday, prosaic, workaday), standardni jezik, profesionalni govor, nestandardni jezik (slang), narečje (dialect), kolokvijalni, govorni jezik, govorni (colloquial, conversational, lingual, speaking, spoken), žargon (jargon, lingo, patois). (various references) vernáculo. (various references) lokal dialekt. (various references) yerel dille yazılan, yerel (local, regional, territorial, topical), lehçe (dialect, idiom, patois, polish), konuşma dili, bölgesel (areal, bush league, local, regional, sectional, territorial, zonal), şive (accent, accents, idiom, localism, speech), argo (argot, cant, gobbledygook, lingo, patter, slang, slangy, vulgarity), anadile ait. (various references) рідна мова (native language), тубільний (aboriginal, indigenous, native, native born), національний (national, nationalist, nationalistic, public, racial), просторіччя, просторічний. (various references) tiếng mẹ đẻ, tiếng bản xứ, thổ ngữ tiếng riêng, bản xứ (indigenous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vernaculus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | folclic. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vernacular": vernacularism, vernacularisms, vernacularly, vernaculars. (additional references) | |
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"Vernacular" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: venacular, venicular, vennacular, veracular, Vernaccia, vernecular, vernicular. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vernacular" (pronounced verna"kyuler) |
| 6 | -a" k y u l er | spectacular, unspectacular. |
| 5 | -k y u l er | avuncular, binocular, cardiovascular, circular, curricular, extracurricular, gastrovascular, intermolecular, jocular, molecular, muscular, particular, perpendicular, secular, semicircular, testicular, vascular, vehicular. |
| 4 | -y u l er | angular, annular, cellular, equiangular, globular, granular, intercellular, irregular, jugular, popular, rectangular, regular, singular, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular. |
| 3 | -u l er | abler, alveolar, bachelor, Buckler, Candler, chancellor, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, dangler, dissimilar, embezzler, enabler, fiddler, Girdler, glandular, gobbler, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, jeweler, juggler, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, needler, nestler, nodular, peninsular, rattler, reveler, saddler, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, wrangler, wrestler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-n-r-r-u-v" | |
-3 letters: canulae, caravel, lacunae, lacunar, lucarne, nuclear, ranulae, unclear, unravel, valance, venular, verruca. | |
-4 letters: anlace, anural, arcane, canula, carnal, carrel, carvel, carven, carver, cavern, claver, craven, craver, crural, culver, cuneal, curara, curare, curler, curran, lacuna, lacune, lancer, larvae, launce, laurae, lucern, neural, ranula, unlace, unreal, valuer, vernal. | |
-5 letters: alane, anear, areal, areca, arena, arval, aurae, aural, aurar, calve, canal, caner, carer, carle, carve, caver, clave, clean, clear, craal, crane, crave, cruel, crura, curer, curve, lacer, lance, larva, lauan, laura, laver, learn, lucre, lunar, lurer, nacre, naval, navar, navel, racer, rance, ravel, raven, raver, recur, renal, reran, rerun, ruana, ruler, rural, ulcer, ulnae, ulnar, uncle, urare, ureal, uveal, vacua, value, varna, velar, venal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-n-r-r-u-v" | |
+1 letter: vernaculars. | |
+2 letters: renovascular, vernacularly. | |
+3 letters: vernacularism. | |
+4 letters: vernacularisms. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 72 6E 61 63 75 6C 61 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . .-. -. .- -.-. ..- .-.. .- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01110010 01101110 01100001 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e r n a c u l a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0072 006E 0061 0063 0075 006C 0061 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56718480676987786784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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