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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vernacular /vəˈnakjʊlə/
▶noun
  • 1 the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region.

    ■ informal the specialized terminology of a group or activity.

  • 2 vernacular architecture.
▶adjective
  • 1 spoken as or using one's mother tongue rather than a second language.
  • 2 (of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public buildings.
– derivatives
vernacularism noun,
vernacularity noun,
vernacularize (or vernacularise) verb,
vernacularly adverb.
– origin C17: from L. vernaculus ‘domestic, native’ + -ar1.



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