meaning of vernacular
1. Belonging to the country of ones birth; ones own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
2. The vernacular language; ones mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
3. the everyday speech of the people as distinguished from literary language
Related Words
vernacular | vernacular art | vernacularism | vernacularization | vernacularly |
