vernacular
vernacular is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. Fuller. Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. Pope.
- 2.The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abdomen
- abdominal
- abuse
- accent
- ambiguity
- anagram
- antiphrasis
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- babu
- backbone
- barbarism
- belly
- betacism
- bilingual
- black
- bosom
- breast
- brogue
- broken
- byword
- call
- cant
- cave
- center
- chrestomathy
- circumscribe
- clinch
- coeliac
- coin
- coiner
- colloquial
- colloquialism
- comparative
- concavity
- confusion
- contents
- corruption
- current
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is vernacular.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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