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vernacular::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang |
| Type of | non-standard speech |
| Has types | rhyming slang, street name |
vernacular::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | non-standard speech |
Examples of vernacular
vernacular
Their dialogue, rural south Texas vernacular, is spare, gnarled and often funny.
From the online.wsj.com
His impolite, vernacular way of painting landscape is apparent at Gow Langsford.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Chase championed civic space and vernacular architecture in Southern California.
From the latimes.com
Gola was 6 feet 7 and in today's vernacular would be considered a point forward.
From the kansas.com
It's also capable of learning and can be trained with vernacular and slang etc.
From the guardian.co.uk
The geneticist helped translate the complexities of DNA into everyday vernacular.
From the thenewstribune.com
In scenes that are from another time, another place, the vernacular rings hollow.
From the buffalonews.com
Most Catholics worship in the vernacular, and their prayers will not be affected.
From the nytimes.com
When built, the first floor overhung the roadway in the vernacular of the time.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Common: 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"
- Slang: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
- The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
- A vernacular, mother tongue or mother language, and less frequently one sense of idiom and dialect, is the native language of a population located in a country or in a region defined on some other basis, such as a locality. ...
- Vernacular architecture is a term used to categorise methods of construction which use locally available resources and traditions to address local needs and circumstances. ...
- The way in which ordinary buildings were built in a particular place, making use of local styles, techniques and materials and responding to local economic and social conditions.
- Common language of a country, not technical or literary
- Native or local language or dialect; in this case Assyrian.
- The everyday expression of cultural groups, from language to architecture.
