a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
<noun.communication> they don't speak our lingo
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
<noun.communication> [ adj ]
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
<adj.all> common parlance a vernacular term vernacular speakers the vulgar tongue of the masses the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
Vernacular \Ver*nac"u*lar\, a. [L. vernaculus born in one's house, native, fr. verna a slave born in his master's house, a native, probably akin to Skr. vas to dwell, E. was.] 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.
Vernacular \Ver*nac"u*lar\, n. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
One can only hope that Mr Major's vernacular has not been too contaminated by Appleby-ese.
Like its sister, it will be edited in the hip, rough-and-tumble vernacular of its readers.
There are good vernacular 'fishing village' designs by architects like Richard Mac Cormac, Wayland Tunley, Peter Aldington and Ralph Erskine.
Unlike the Latin mathematics texts used in universities, which aimed at a small elite, the commercial arithmetic texts were written in vernacular languages for the children of merchants and civil servants.
The Vatican Council replaced it with the Mass in vernacular.
That is designed to make it easier to move from one application to another and, in the industry vernacular, convince customers that IBM is selling solutions, not boxes.
Mr. Bernstein has embodied our troubled quest toward a native symphonic/operatic tradition, and exposed its central theme: how to integrate popular and vernacular strains with forms and styles inherited from our cultural parents in Europe.
"Jason has become part of the vernacular," Ganis said. "Why? I think because he is genuinely frightening, and teen-agers genuinely love to be frightened.
But locals ridiculed the new actors for their northern German vernacular, which offends the ear of an audience used to the distinctive delivery long considered among the Burgtheater's greatest merits.
This approach, combined with an understanding of the vernacular and the landscape, where he carefully placed his houses, produced a sense of simple elegance and progressive creation that is full of valuable lessons for us today.
This has led to one of its vernacular names, the monkey-faced owl.