Associations to the word «Vernacular»
Noun
- Lingua
- Liturgy
- Idiom
- Latin
- Sanskrit
- Syriac
- Dialect
- Farmhouse
- Dante
- Vocabulary
- Yiddish
- Lan
- Architecture
- Revival
- Pali
- Gable
- Hebrew
- Translation
- Language
- Pronunciation
- Bible
- Modernism
- Grammar
- Hindi
- Scripture
- Treatise
- Chaucer
- Classical
- Arabic
- Vatican
- Catechism
- Literature
- Syrian
- Literacy
- Sermon
- Eloquence
- Orthography
- Renaissance
- Poetry
- Style
- Borrowing
- Hymn
- Text
- Reformation
- Tongue
- Kurdistan
- Layman
- Preaching
- Tradition
- Syntax
- Hu
- Luther
- Psalm
- Anglo
- Slang
- Bulgarian
- English
- Verse
- Cottage
- Mass
Adjective
Wiktionary
VERNACULAR, noun. The language of a people or a national language.
VERNACULAR, noun. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific language.
VERNACULAR, noun. Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
VERNACULAR, noun. (Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
VERNACULAR, adjective. Of or pertaining to everyday language.
VERNACULAR, adjective. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
VERNACULAR, adjective. (architecture) of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported
VERNACULAR, adjective. (art) is connected to a collective memory; not imported
VERNACULAR DANCE, noun. Any of form of dance that evolved naturally within a particular community, without the intervention of professional choreographers.
Dictionary definition
VERNACULAR, noun. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo".
VERNACULAR, noun. The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language).
VERNACULAR, adjective. 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".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.