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vəˈnakjʊlə/
n.
- the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region.
▸informal the specialized terminology of a group or activity.
- vernacular architecture.
adj.
- spoken as or using one's mother tongue rather than a second language.
- (of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public buildings.
Derivative
- vernacularism n.
- vernacularity n.
- vernacularize
or vernacularise v. - vernacularly adv.
Etymology
C17: from L. vernaculus ‘domestic, native’ + -ar1.