Definitions for vernacular
Overview of noun vernacular
The noun vernacular has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
(a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo")
2. vernacular
(the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language))
Overview of adj vernacular
The adj vernacular has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. common, vernacular, vulgar
(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")
