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nouna characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)type of:
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"a vernacular term" "vernacular speakers"adjectivebeing or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
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nounthe everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)type of:
Definition that contains vernacular
- moore United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969)
- hindi the most widely spoken of modern Indic vernaculars; spoken mostly in the north of India; along with English it is the official language of India; usually written in Devanagari script
- yiddish a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
- demotic the modern Greek vernacular
- douglas moore United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969)
- prakrit any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD
- uncle remus the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880
- romaic the modern Greek vernacular
- macaronic of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together