vernacular

vernacular is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. 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.
2. noun. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
3. noun. the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
4. noun. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

   "they don't speak our lingo"

   Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang

5. adjective. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

   "common parlance"

   "a vernacular term"

   Synonyms: common, vulgar

Synonyms

argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, common, vulgar

Common word forms

vernaculars, vernacularly, vernacularise, vernacularity, vernacularize, vernacularness

Words from these letters

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