Vernacular describes everyday language, including slang, that's used by the people. The vernacular is different from literary or official language: it's the way people really talk with each other, like how families talk at home.
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language;
Noun
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
Noun
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don''t speak our lingo"
Adjective S.
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
a.
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.
n.
The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often,
the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
Vernacular
His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue.
Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted.
Vernacular
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language;
The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
Usage Examples
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
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Other Usage ExamplesI guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.
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