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vernacular
 
Adjective vernacular has 1 sense
  1. common, vernacular, vulgar - 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"
    Antonym: formal (indirect, via informal)
Noun vernacular has 2 senses
  1. cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
    --1 is a kind of non-standard speech
    --1 has particulars: street name; rhyming slang
  2. vernacular - the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
    --2 is a kind of     non-standard speech
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