Vernacular is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VERNACULAR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a vernacular language, expression, or mode of expression
• the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region
• the terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity
• architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings
• The vernacular language; one\'s mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
• a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
• the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
ADJECTIVE:
• (of speech or written works) using the mother tongue of a country or region
• (of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public buildings
• Belonging to the country of one\'s birth; one\'s own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
• (of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.
• indigenous, native, spoken by the people of the country or of one's own country
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language; of, relating to, or being a nonstandard language or dialect of a place, region, or country; of, relating to, or being the normal spoken form of a language
• indigenous, native, spoken by the people of the country or of one\'s own country

Words related to VERNACULAR

vernacularly20 vernaculars16

Words that contain VERNACULAR

vernaculars16 vernacularly20 vernacularise18 vernacularism20 vernacularist18 vernacularity21 vernacularize27 vernacularised20 vernacularises19 vernacularisms21 vernacularists19 vernacularized29 vernacularizes28 vernacularising21 vernacularities20 vernacularizing30

How to use VERNACULAR in a sentence

• Only Hebrew could become the common vernacular language of the scattered fragments of Jewry drifting back to Palestine from all the countries of the world.
• But the best company in Fayal was so much less interesting than the peasantry, that some of us persevered in studying the vernacular.
• The other is a short vocabulary of the Latin and vernacular names of plants, a species of class-vocabulary of which there exist several of rather early date.
• The Old French lives of Saint Agnes and other vernacular versions of the Middle Ages.
• It is a mediaeval error of nomenclature sanctioned by long usage in foreign mouths, but without any equivalent in the vernacular of the Osmanlis themselves.
• These epithets, to be sure, still occur in Ireland, but far less frequently now than in the times of which we write, when Irish was almost the vernacular language of the country.
• The practical motive, which destroyed the art of so many Latin writers, impaired the literary value of much written in the vernacular.
• It is clear that he had practiced poetry in the vernacular under the immediate influence of Tansillo.
• These vernacular Purânas seem to be collections of strangely fantastic fairy tales.
• At a fairly early date there were influential Sivaite and Vishnuite sects, each with a devotional literature in the vernacular.
• The modern-Latin poets in all countries were the first, but their efforts soon gave place to attempts in the vernacular tongues.
• They are noticeable as being the first writers to publish religious works, either original or translated, in the vernacular and this practice steadily increased.
• Hence arose the desire to have the Bible translated into the vernacular of various European countries.
• The vernacular idiom in Italy was held in such contempt that their youths were not suffered to read Italian books, their native productions.
• Also occasionally there was a bit of vernacular, as in the next reply.
• By the time I was ready to leave the recruiting offices I felt that I had made great progress in the vernacular.
• Freed from old traditions and prejudice, our common school is now grounded in the vernacular, in the national history and literature, and in home geography and natural science.
• If written in the vernacular, the work was immediately set down as vulgar.
• Classical scholarship at first scorned the vernacular literatures, and did all its work of criticism and imitation in the Latin tongue.
• During the whole of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the vernacular was even more neglected than before.
• In missionary schools moral and religious instruction may be given in the vernacular as an auxiliary to English in conveying such instruction.
• Even the heroine of the drama is made to speak in the vernacular dialect.
• In the headings of titles, the names of authors are given in their vernacular form.
• In the two Republics High Dutch rules for official purposes, but in common intercourse the vernacular Dutch is still about the same as it had been a hundred years ago.
• For an English-Dutch interpreter the thorough knowledge of the vernacular is essential.
• The English of all the poems is simple and vernacular.
• Despite her imperfect knowledge of English, and especially the vernacular, she had a shrewd intuition of what had passed between the two men.
• Nor during this period were translations made of the classics or commentaries, into the Japanese vernacular.
• I cannot find any translation into a vernacular except a German version by John Froben of Andernach which appeared at Nuremberg in 1531.

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