VERNACULAR
Definition of VERNACULAR
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The language of a people or a national language.
"A vernacular of the United States is English."
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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."
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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."
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Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
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Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
"a vernacular disease"
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Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
Source: Wiktionary