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Definition of "vernacularly" []

  • In a vernacular way. (adverb)

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Use "vernacularly" in a sentence
  • "" Chapeau ," he added, which in French, vernacularly, means "I tip my hat.""
  • "In hindsight one can only agree that the American Civil War (as it is called vernacularly) was necessary to set a tragic precedent for making our Union compulsory."
  • "And, as I have learned while I served the Spaniard, the Duke of Alva in former times had the leaguer-lasses who followed his camp marshalled into TERTIAS (whilk me call regiments), and officered and commanded by those of their own feminine gender, and regulated by a commander-in chief, called in German Hureweibler, or, as we would say vernacularly, Captain of the Queans."