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English to English adjective
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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; as, English is our vernacular language. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | | Example: common parlance
a vernacular term
vernacular speakers
the vulgar tongue of the masses
the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
source: wordnet30 noun
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a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | | Example: they don't speak our lingo
source: wordnet30
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the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | | source: wordnet30
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The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality. | | source: webster1913
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