Words Like VERNACULAR
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to VERNACULAR.
    
    
    
        
            8 Alternative Words Similar to vernacular
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        5 examples of vernacular
           
        
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        English is our vernacular language
    
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        the vulgar tongue of the masses
    
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        vernacular speakers
    
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        a vernacular term
    
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        the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of vernacular
           
        
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        Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language.
    
    
    
 
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        The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.
    
    
    
 
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        a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
    
    
    
 
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        being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
    
    
    
 
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        the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
    
    
    
 
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        The standard native language of a country or locality.
    
    
    
 
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        The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language. See Synonyms at dialect.
    
    
    
 
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        A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region:  the vernaculars of New York City. 
    
    
    
 
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        The idiom of a particular trade or profession:  in the legal vernacular. 
    
    
    
 
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        An idiomatic word, phrase, or expression.