1. vernacular - Noun
2. vernacular - Adjective
3. vernacular - Adjective Satellite
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.
The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process?" Christopher Hitchens
The conflation of faith as "unevidenced belief” with its vernacular use as "confidence based on experience” is simply a word trick used to buttress religion. Jerry Coyne
It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular. Mahatma Gandhi
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. David Ogilvy
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. David Antin
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.' Dave Chappelle