[
US
/vɝˈnækjəɫɝ/
]
[ UK /vɜːnˈækjʊlɐ/ ]
[ UK /vɜːnˈækjʊlɐ/ ]
NOUN
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a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
they don't speak our lingo - the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
ADJECTIVE
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being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
common parlance
the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
the vulgar tongue of the masses
vernacular speakers
a vernacular term
How To Use vernacular In A Sentence
- Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
- They simply called them theotisci, those who speak the vernacular, the language of the people (theod).
- I am not for the word becoming part of the common, everyday vernacular, but it still is.
- Some vernacular language material is not fully catalogued, but all uncatalogued vernacular materials can be found as an order record through an author or title search in the library catalog.
- To many people, John XXIII was the Kennedy pope, and Vatican II was his Camelot a glorious, Roman Catholic version of the New Deal and the New Frontier that would move Catholicism from the medieval past into a rosy future of social equality, in which mass would be celebrated in the vernacular, nuns' habits would be modernized, and the popemobile would replace the traditional gestatorial chair as a form of papal transportation. Philocrites: May 2005 Archives
- Some architects and scholars of architecture have sidestepped this question and chosen instead to experiment with vernacularism.
- Designed in the 1970s, the Oberoi was the first of the luxury hotels to build lanais in the local vernacular, a style much copied by subsequent architects.
- It worries them that many vintage structures, both vernacular and colonial, are being changed unsympathetically, resulting in eyesores, even on King Street.
- Neither was his accent now altogether that of Lancashire, for Lee, as is not uncommon, would sometimes speak a purer English than the local vernacular. Lorimer of the Northwest
- Half its output is American; its vernacular looks and sounds transatlantic.
