Definition of "vernacular" []

• The standard native language of a country or locality. (noun)
• The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language. See Synonyms at dialect. (noun)
• A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region: the vernaculars of New York City. (noun)
• The idiom of a particular trade or profession: in the legal vernacular. (noun)
• An idiomatic word, phrase, or expression. (noun)

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• "The next question intends to look at the respondents own private position on the question of whether the option to do the liturgical readings directly in the vernacular is a good or a bad thing."
• "For the Yankee vernacular is dying out of New England."
• "I think the vernacular is DRAMA QUEEN, showing up in a media hangout wearing red?!?"