vernacular

The language of a people or a national language.

The principal vernacular of the United States is English.

The idea that the Bible should be translated into vernaculars was explosive in medieval society.

Đồng nghĩa: vulgate, vulgar

Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

Near-synonyms: basilect, demotic

Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.

Đồng nghĩa: basilect, demotic

Language unique to a particular group of people.

Near-synonyms: jargon, argot, dialect, slang

For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.

Đồng nghĩa: jargon, argot, dialect, slang

A language lacking standardization or a written form.

Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.

Vatican II, a church council in the 1960s, allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.

Đồng nghĩa: vulgate, vulgar

(architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.

Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

Near-synonyms: common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial, basilectal, demotic

Đồng nghĩa: common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial, basilectal, demotic

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.

Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic

a vernacular disease

Đồng nghĩa: native, indigenous, endemic

(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.

Đồng nghĩa: folk

(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

(taxonomy) Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.

An English vernacular name for Rosa multiflora is multiflora rose.

Đồng nghĩa: common