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Meaning of vernacular


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  vernacular
      adj 1: 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"
             [syn: {common}, {vernacular}, {vulgar}]
      n 1: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among
           thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: {slang},
           {cant}, {jargon}, {lingo}, {argot}, {patois}, {vernacular}]
      2: the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from
         literary language)


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