Definition of vernacular in English:

vernacular

noun vəˈnakjʊləvərˈnækjələr

1usually the vernacularThe language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
本国语；本地话；方言
he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience
为了赢得更多的读者，他用本地话写作。
Example sentencesExamples
- Using the vernacular means the church, when it teaches the language, teaches the vernacular.
- The replacement of a sacred language with the vernacular in English worship made religious reflection unavoidable.
- I'm speaking in the vernacular and simplifying, but that is really what happens.
- Similar results have been found where the vernacular is a non-standard variety.
- However, the vernacular which is spoken in most informal and family contexts is Creole.
- I think Indian literature in English and in the vernacular can only reach greatness consistently if the two interact and feed off one another.
- They introduced rhythm and rhyme into medieval poetry and wrote both in Latin and in the vernacular.
- I think the colonial language or the vernacular that I use in the novel comes directly from that research.
- This is an example of a pattern that is half a millennium old, and is still potent in the vernacular as well as in formal usage.
- For example, in the case of Li Po, or Li Bai, his poetry is very accessible, because he uses ordinary language, vernacular that everyone can understand.
- Mellors is capable of approximating the language of his lord and lady; but for him, ordinary English is the vernacular.
- They simply called them theotisci, those who speak the vernacular, the language of the people (theod).
- The introduction of a narrator, speaking in the vernacular, only reinforces this separation.
- For a time most of them wrote in Latin, but they surely did their thinking in the vernacular.
- As a result, most children in Kenya are fluent in both languages, in addition to the vernacular spoken at home.
- Poetry and prose began to be written in the vernacular instead of Latin, and the invention of printing contributed to the spread of ideas.
- Previously you would be fined Rs 5 for speaking in the vernacular in school; now you are threatened with expulsion.
- ‘Sloan,’ used as a noun, should be poised to enter the vernacular as slang for ‘many things to many people.’
- The type of estuary English that most broadcasters (certainly most broadcasters under 40) speak has become the vernacular of the age.
- Linguistically, In the Mecca juxtaposes standard English with the vernacular and the language of the streets.
Synonyms
everyday language, spoken language, colloquial speech, native speech, conversational language, common parlance, non-standard language, jargon, -speak, cant, slang, idiom, argot, patois, dialect
regional language, local tongue, regionalism, localism, provincialism
informal lingo, local lingo, patter, geekspeak
rare idiolect
1. 1.1informal with adjective or noun modifier The terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity.
  〈非正式〉行话；术语
  mass noun gardening vernacular
  园艺术语。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Lewis and her editor have created a magazine for ‘insiders’ - or, to use the tired fashion vernacular, the ‘in - crowd’.
  Without that working language, and other such scholarly vernaculars, today's globalization discourse would be hard to imagine.
  Playful terms transfer the vernacular of the laboratory to the more formal written language of publications.
  Using NWA's original lyrics, Hack has no opportunity to parody the hip hop vernacular, as these rejected video scripts would appear to do.
  In the Miller Packard sections the language tends toward the vernacular of the police detective.
  Assets then passed as a technical term into the vernacular.
  It is, in the comic book vernacular, a superhero ‘origin’ story, and represents one of the most unique and credible ones ever brought to the screen.
  On the one hand, you have an absurdly hyped, burgeoning pop star who strikes rebel poses and affects scenester fashion and vernacular.
  His writing is unquestionably an authentic representation of black street life, especially his mastery of ghetto vernacular.
  Furthermore, to resurrect the extinct Southern vernacular expression, to ‘swan,’ means to swear, to promise.
  She ventures into a religious subculture's rhetorical world and returns with a thick description of fundamentalist vernacular.
  Folksonomies are, in essence, just vernacular vocabularies; the ad-hoc languages of intimate networks.
  In Virginia, he discovered and embraced the black southern vernacular as his enduring field of influence, themes, values, forms, and reference.
  In golf vernacular, they suffer from a condition called ‘rabbit ears.’
  Synonyms
  phraseology, terms, expressions, words, language, parlance, vocabulary, nomenclature
2mass noun Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings.
（建筑）民间风格
buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular
哥特式风格与农舍风格相融合的建筑。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sadly, traditional vernacular is either dying or dead - with the ironic exception of the five star coral stone and thatch beach-hotels.
- The rural vernacular, for example, is appropriated not for its romantic idealism but for its structural and economic efficiency.
- Most of the houses are bungalows or two-storey buildings, and all will be built in keeping with Arran's architectural vernacular.
- Furman pairs the units with his clean, elegant Hill Country vernacular.
- Cain's solution reinterprets plain-style southern farm vernacular and ‘shotgun’ housing in a contemporary way.
- Progressive vernacular is what Bernie Baker calls his architecture.
- Is this because he is unaware of the true essence of vernacular, the relationship between function and place?
- And a distinctive style it is: the romantic, aspiring skyscrapers our cover evokes are the true New York architectural vernacular.
- Worth noting is the film's attention to period detail - costuming and vernacular appear fully consistent with the times - and especially its look.
- Falmouth's new maritime museum responds to and is inspired by the muscular vernacular of nautical buildings.
- The result is a Shaker-like blend of craft and vernacular.
- The pragmatic modernism of the architecture marries well with the unfussy vernacular of the old barn.
- Most of the town's new developments fit quietly into the local vernacular, but some architects are trying to break the mould.
- If anything, it responds to an entirely different vernacular - that of the campus's former function as an air base.
- Rather than looking to the immediate local for its architectural reference, Voyager looks across the Indian Ocean to the Cape Dutch vernacular.

adjective vəˈnakjʊləvərˈnækjələr

1(of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.
（语言）作为母语的；本国语的；本地话的；方言的
Example sentencesExamples
- For our French and German visitors, we have some information in their vernacular language which can be read in the museum.
- Of that half, translations from French lead the next-most-frequent vernacular language, Italian, by a ratio of about six to one.
- No record remains of the education that gave Chaucer lifelong familiarity with Latin and several vernacular languages and literatures.
- While many people speak English, in rural areas tribal languages are spoken, in addition to a few other vernacular languages.
- This issue is particularly important in the case of vernacular dialects such as AAVE or Caribbean Creoles.
- ‘X far from fulfils the promise of Y’ is not a vernacular construction - nobody talks like that.
- The introduction of English words into the vernacular dialects will gradually diminish the distance between the scientific and popular language.
- Packed with wisdom, vernacular language, and family lore, Redemption Song is a story about the curative power of love.
- This effort is further complicated by vernacular language that presents its own challenges.
- My familiarity with the richness and variety of vernacular language inevitably led me to become a proponent of orality in literacy.
- Did these vernacular languages suffer because the writers did not use their mother tongues to flesh their work?
- French, whose use has been protested by Kanak nationalists, is used in politics; vernacular languages are reserved for private life.
- ‘This manual will be translated into vernacular language to allow more access to encourage coffee farming,’ he said.
- The vernacular languages have been introduced as the media of instruction.
- Instead it will become regarded historically as a document that knowingly accelerated the demise of vernacular language usage in the Northern Territory.
- They wrote in Latin as well as in their various vernacular dialects.
- I hope that others can assemble the jagged rhythms of my stories to unlearn common misperceptions about vernacular English.
1. 1.1 (of speech or written works) using the mother tongue of a country or region.
  （话语或书面作品）用本国语的；用本地话的；用方言的
  vernacular literature
  用本地话创作的文学。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Crossing the barriers of vernacular literature, her works have been read by more people and she has been able to create a niche of her own.
  After this, Ackroyd notes, and applauds, ‘that vernacular straightforwardness… from Beowulf to the works of Sir Thomas More’.
  The state's prime purpose in making the vernacular English Bible accessible to ordinary people was to promote obedience.
  Regional variants to the vernacular revival style took account of local materials and building traditions.
  I identified with his heroes, laughed at his jokes, loved the vernacular power and rhythm of his prose.
  At a sitting of the local court a defendant used popular vernacular speech while being cross examined by the solicitor.
  Like Carter, Ruth performs signifiers of whiteness: she wears light colored clothing and eschews black vernacular English.
  Here is what I believe to be the vernacular understanding of the difference between shame, humiliation and embarrassment.
  This is raw material, sung with vernacular grain in the language.
  It is part of a vernacular literature that goes back unbroken to the fifth or sixth century, possibly earlier, and survives to this day.
  I don't think so - not in the popular vernacular sense of that expression.
  The growth of vernacular literature happened most readily in those places where the authority of the Church seemed to be weakest.
  Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black vernacular speech.
  Can we discern here an eye to the richly sensitised and widely available storehouses of our vernacular literature?
  The key point to remember is that biological altruism cannot be equated with altruism in the everyday vernacular sense.
  There are early monuments of vernacular literature from the Middle Ages, as well, that enlighten the study of medieval Europe as a whole.
  Many vernacular items tended to imitate known work of professional photographers.
  The juxtaposition of an austere exterior and grand interior is characteristic of the local vernacular tradition.
  Publishing of books in vernacular languages still dominates the domestic industry.
  Moffatt exploits the cultural resonance of photographic style by working in a variety of vernacular traditions.
2(of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings.
（建筑）民间风格
vernacular buildings
Example sentencesExamples
- Informed by simple rural vernacular buildings, Sydney's Equestrian Centre forms part of a new regional park.
- He reinterpreted the island's vernacular architecture which had long fascinated him.
- But the disadvantage is the difficulty of capturing the essence of a place and responding to the vernacular architecture.
- In terms of architecture, vernacular buildings are seen as the opposite of whatever is academic, high style, polite.
- This desktop metaphor does fulfil its chatting purpose but may, in the future, be thought of as early vernacular virtual architecture.
- With their straightforward gestures and careful response to the site, the firm's buildings mix modern and vernacular forms.
- As a painting student, I wanted to reference the landscape and things in the landscape, mostly the vernacular architecture, in my painting.
- The image of sustainable architecture has tended to be of vernacular buildings in a rural Arcadia.
- The list for 2005 includes buildings that range from modest to grand, from vernacular to modern.
- Over the past 20 years, the artist has increasingly brought vernacular architecture and decoration into his sculptures.
- Both were presidents of the Upper Wharfedale Field Society and involved in vernacular architecture.
- It is predominantly an adaptation of Cotswold vernacular architecture with pure arts and crafts embellishments.
- As is the custom in Indian vernacular architecture, Barefoot College courtyards are highly decorated at ground level.
- This activity can remind us that vernacular architecture is one cornerstone of our identity.
- Except for the vernacular architecture, it doesn't look all that different from west Texas.
- Is there a vernacular architecture or way of arranging space, particularly in the holy city, which has been developed or erected by devotees?
- A key example of this for Papanek is vernacular architecture and housing.
- There exist many anomalies in Zambian vernacular architecture.
- The principle of thermal mass is not new - it can be seen in the thick-walled, vernacular buildings of hot, dry, countries.
- One has a roof of fan-shaped shingles, reminiscent of the curved terracotta tiles typical of Kent and Sussex vernacular architecture.

Derivatives

vernacularism

noun vəˈnakjʊlərɪz(ə)mvərˈnækjələˌrɪzəm

My use of vernacularisms in this post seemed appropriate in the informal atmosphere of the blogosphere.
Example sentencesExamples
- Some architects and scholars of architecture have sidestepped this question and chosen instead to experiment with vernacularism.
- There are no awkward phrases or vernacularisms in the texts.
- The ambient sights and sounds, work culture, and common vernacularisms are the story's setting.
- We also welcome papers that analyze any aspect of literary discourse in relation to black vernacularism.

vernacularity

noun vənakjʊˈlarɪtivərˌnækjəˈlɛrədi

I am interested in translation in a broader sense, that is, in terms of metaphor and poetics as well as vernacularity.
Example sentencesExamples
- Please feel free to discuss possible papers with us by email, and to suggest themes and issues that seem to you relevant to the topic of vernacularity.
- Everyone who is genuinely interested in problems of women's writing, vernacularity, and the construction of textual authority will have much to learn from this book.
- Somerset's book provides the tools to push vernacularity studies to a higher level, to the kind of serious scholarship the topic still needs.

vernacularize

verb vəˈnakjʊlərʌɪzvərˈnækjələˌraɪz

[with object]

Translate (speech or writing) into the vernacular of a country or region.
the liturgy had been vernacularized
Example sentencesExamples
- The problem, in a sense, is that Power and his collaborators have done their vernacularizing too well.
- The first exorbitant use of it was to justify vernacularizing the Mass totally and everywhere.
- This ended when the liturgy was vernacularized in 1965, after the Second Vatican Council.

vernacularly

adverb

Dening is concise and helpful in asserting that history in the Pacific needs to be vernacular and ‘vernacularly tolerant’.
Example sentencesExamples
- And cultivating friendships among neighboring competitors has proven to be a great bun-saver, vernacularly speaking.
- Put vernacularly, the citizens of barter-addicted countries will inevitably grow disenchanted with shoddy and shabby goods delivered late.
- Syriac eventually gave way vernacularly and, to some extent, liturgically, to Arabic.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin vernaculus 'domestic, native' (from verna 'home-born slave') + -ar¹.

Rhymes

Dracula, facula, oracular, spectacular

Definition of vernacular in US English:

vernacular

nounvərˈnækjələrvərˈnakyələr

1usually the vernacularThe language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
本国语；本地话；方言
he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience
为了赢得更多的读者，他用本地话写作。
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘Sloan,’ used as a noun, should be poised to enter the vernacular as slang for ‘many things to many people.’
- The introduction of a narrator, speaking in the vernacular, only reinforces this separation.
- The replacement of a sacred language with the vernacular in English worship made religious reflection unavoidable.
- Linguistically, In the Mecca juxtaposes standard English with the vernacular and the language of the streets.
- For example, in the case of Li Po, or Li Bai, his poetry is very accessible, because he uses ordinary language, vernacular that everyone can understand.
- Using the vernacular means the church, when it teaches the language, teaches the vernacular.
- The type of estuary English that most broadcasters (certainly most broadcasters under 40) speak has become the vernacular of the age.
- They introduced rhythm and rhyme into medieval poetry and wrote both in Latin and in the vernacular.
- For a time most of them wrote in Latin, but they surely did their thinking in the vernacular.
- I'm speaking in the vernacular and simplifying, but that is really what happens.
- I think the colonial language or the vernacular that I use in the novel comes directly from that research.
- They simply called them theotisci, those who speak the vernacular, the language of the people (theod).
- Similar results have been found where the vernacular is a non-standard variety.
- This is an example of a pattern that is half a millennium old, and is still potent in the vernacular as well as in formal usage.
- Poetry and prose began to be written in the vernacular instead of Latin, and the invention of printing contributed to the spread of ideas.
- Mellors is capable of approximating the language of his lord and lady; but for him, ordinary English is the vernacular.
- I think Indian literature in English and in the vernacular can only reach greatness consistently if the two interact and feed off one another.
- Previously you would be fined Rs 5 for speaking in the vernacular in school; now you are threatened with expulsion.
- As a result, most children in Kenya are fluent in both languages, in addition to the vernacular spoken at home.
- However, the vernacular which is spoken in most informal and family contexts is Creole.
Synonyms
everyday language, spoken language, colloquial speech, native speech, conversational language, common parlance, non-standard language, jargon, -speak, cant, slang, idiom, argot, patois, dialect
1. 1.1informal with adjective or noun modifier The terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity.
  〈非正式〉行话；术语
  gardening vernacular
  园艺术语。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the Miller Packard sections the language tends toward the vernacular of the police detective.
  Without that working language, and other such scholarly vernaculars, today's globalization discourse would be hard to imagine.
  His writing is unquestionably an authentic representation of black street life, especially his mastery of ghetto vernacular.
  Lewis and her editor have created a magazine for ‘insiders’ - or, to use the tired fashion vernacular, the ‘in - crowd’.
  In golf vernacular, they suffer from a condition called ‘rabbit ears.’
  On the one hand, you have an absurdly hyped, burgeoning pop star who strikes rebel poses and affects scenester fashion and vernacular.
  Using NWA's original lyrics, Hack has no opportunity to parody the hip hop vernacular, as these rejected video scripts would appear to do.
  She ventures into a religious subculture's rhetorical world and returns with a thick description of fundamentalist vernacular.
  In Virginia, he discovered and embraced the black southern vernacular as his enduring field of influence, themes, values, forms, and reference.
  Playful terms transfer the vernacular of the laboratory to the more formal written language of publications.
  Furthermore, to resurrect the extinct Southern vernacular expression, to ‘swan,’ means to swear, to promise.
  Assets then passed as a technical term into the vernacular.
  It is, in the comic book vernacular, a superhero ‘origin’ story, and represents one of the most unique and credible ones ever brought to the screen.
  Folksonomies are, in essence, just vernacular vocabularies; the ad-hoc languages of intimate networks.
  Synonyms
  phraseology, terms, expressions, words, language, parlance, vocabulary, nomenclature
2Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings.
（建筑）民间风格
buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular
哥特式风格与农舍风格相融合的建筑。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sadly, traditional vernacular is either dying or dead - with the ironic exception of the five star coral stone and thatch beach-hotels.
- The pragmatic modernism of the architecture marries well with the unfussy vernacular of the old barn.
- The rural vernacular, for example, is appropriated not for its romantic idealism but for its structural and economic efficiency.
- If anything, it responds to an entirely different vernacular - that of the campus's former function as an air base.
- Furman pairs the units with his clean, elegant Hill Country vernacular.
- Worth noting is the film's attention to period detail - costuming and vernacular appear fully consistent with the times - and especially its look.
- Most of the town's new developments fit quietly into the local vernacular, but some architects are trying to break the mould.
- The result is a Shaker-like blend of craft and vernacular.
- Cain's solution reinterprets plain-style southern farm vernacular and ‘shotgun’ housing in a contemporary way.
- And a distinctive style it is: the romantic, aspiring skyscrapers our cover evokes are the true New York architectural vernacular.
- Rather than looking to the immediate local for its architectural reference, Voyager looks across the Indian Ocean to the Cape Dutch vernacular.
- Falmouth's new maritime museum responds to and is inspired by the muscular vernacular of nautical buildings.
- Is this because he is unaware of the true essence of vernacular, the relationship between function and place?
- Progressive vernacular is what Bernie Baker calls his architecture.
- Most of the houses are bungalows or two-storey buildings, and all will be built in keeping with Arran's architectural vernacular.

adjectivevərˈnækjələrvərˈnakyələr

1(of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.
（语言）作为母语的；本国语的；本地话的；方言的
Example sentencesExamples
- My familiarity with the richness and variety of vernacular language inevitably led me to become a proponent of orality in literacy.
- This effort is further complicated by vernacular language that presents its own challenges.
- ‘X far from fulfils the promise of Y’ is not a vernacular construction - nobody talks like that.
- This issue is particularly important in the case of vernacular dialects such as AAVE or Caribbean Creoles.
- I hope that others can assemble the jagged rhythms of my stories to unlearn common misperceptions about vernacular English.
- Packed with wisdom, vernacular language, and family lore, Redemption Song is a story about the curative power of love.
- While many people speak English, in rural areas tribal languages are spoken, in addition to a few other vernacular languages.
- They wrote in Latin as well as in their various vernacular dialects.
- ‘This manual will be translated into vernacular language to allow more access to encourage coffee farming,’ he said.
- The introduction of English words into the vernacular dialects will gradually diminish the distance between the scientific and popular language.
- The vernacular languages have been introduced as the media of instruction.
- No record remains of the education that gave Chaucer lifelong familiarity with Latin and several vernacular languages and literatures.
- Of that half, translations from French lead the next-most-frequent vernacular language, Italian, by a ratio of about six to one.
- Instead it will become regarded historically as a document that knowingly accelerated the demise of vernacular language usage in the Northern Territory.
- French, whose use has been protested by Kanak nationalists, is used in politics; vernacular languages are reserved for private life.
- For our French and German visitors, we have some information in their vernacular language which can be read in the museum.
- Did these vernacular languages suffer because the writers did not use their mother tongues to flesh their work?
1. 1.1 (of speech or written works) spoken or written using one's mother tongue.
  （话语或书面作品）用本国语的；用本地话的；用方言的
  vernacular literature
  用本地话创作的文学。
  Example sentencesExamples
  After this, Ackroyd notes, and applauds, ‘that vernacular straightforwardness… from Beowulf to the works of Sir Thomas More’.
  Like Carter, Ruth performs signifiers of whiteness: she wears light colored clothing and eschews black vernacular English.
  Publishing of books in vernacular languages still dominates the domestic industry.
  Regional variants to the vernacular revival style took account of local materials and building traditions.
  It is part of a vernacular literature that goes back unbroken to the fifth or sixth century, possibly earlier, and survives to this day.
  Crossing the barriers of vernacular literature, her works have been read by more people and she has been able to create a niche of her own.
  This is raw material, sung with vernacular grain in the language.
  The juxtaposition of an austere exterior and grand interior is characteristic of the local vernacular tradition.
  The key point to remember is that biological altruism cannot be equated with altruism in the everyday vernacular sense.
  Many vernacular items tended to imitate known work of professional photographers.
  Here is what I believe to be the vernacular understanding of the difference between shame, humiliation and embarrassment.
  Can we discern here an eye to the richly sensitised and widely available storehouses of our vernacular literature?
  The growth of vernacular literature happened most readily in those places where the authority of the Church seemed to be weakest.
  Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black vernacular speech.
  I identified with his heroes, laughed at his jokes, loved the vernacular power and rhythm of his prose.
  The state's prime purpose in making the vernacular English Bible accessible to ordinary people was to promote obedience.
  I don't think so - not in the popular vernacular sense of that expression.
  Moffatt exploits the cultural resonance of photographic style by working in a variety of vernacular traditions.
  At a sitting of the local court a defendant used popular vernacular speech while being cross examined by the solicitor.
  There are early monuments of vernacular literature from the Middle Ages, as well, that enlighten the study of medieval Europe as a whole.
2(of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings.
（建筑）民间风格
Example sentencesExamples
- With their straightforward gestures and careful response to the site, the firm's buildings mix modern and vernacular forms.
- This activity can remind us that vernacular architecture is one cornerstone of our identity.
- Over the past 20 years, the artist has increasingly brought vernacular architecture and decoration into his sculptures.
- The image of sustainable architecture has tended to be of vernacular buildings in a rural Arcadia.
- In terms of architecture, vernacular buildings are seen as the opposite of whatever is academic, high style, polite.
- He reinterpreted the island's vernacular architecture which had long fascinated him.
- It is predominantly an adaptation of Cotswold vernacular architecture with pure arts and crafts embellishments.
- Is there a vernacular architecture or way of arranging space, particularly in the holy city, which has been developed or erected by devotees?
- Except for the vernacular architecture, it doesn't look all that different from west Texas.
- As is the custom in Indian vernacular architecture, Barefoot College courtyards are highly decorated at ground level.
- But the disadvantage is the difficulty of capturing the essence of a place and responding to the vernacular architecture.
- Informed by simple rural vernacular buildings, Sydney's Equestrian Centre forms part of a new regional park.
- As a painting student, I wanted to reference the landscape and things in the landscape, mostly the vernacular architecture, in my painting.
- There exist many anomalies in Zambian vernacular architecture.
- The list for 2005 includes buildings that range from modest to grand, from vernacular to modern.
- The principle of thermal mass is not new - it can be seen in the thick-walled, vernacular buildings of hot, dry, countries.
- Both were presidents of the Upper Wharfedale Field Society and involved in vernacular architecture.
- One has a roof of fan-shaped shingles, reminiscent of the curved terracotta tiles typical of Kent and Sussex vernacular architecture.
- This desktop metaphor does fulfil its chatting purpose but may, in the future, be thought of as early vernacular virtual architecture.
- A key example of this for Papanek is vernacular architecture and housing.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin vernaculus ‘domestic, native’ (from verna ‘home-born slave’) + -ar.

词汇	vernacular
释义	Definition of vernacular in English: vernacular noun vəˈnakjʊləvərˈnækjələr 1usually the vernacularThe language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. 本国语；本地话；方言 he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience 为了赢得更多的读者，他用本地话写作。 Example sentencesExamples Using the vernacular means the church, when it teaches the language, teaches the vernacular. The replacement of a sacred language with the vernacular in English worship made religious reflection unavoidable. I'm speaking in the vernacular and simplifying, but that is really what happens. Similar results have been found where the vernacular is a non-standard variety. However, the vernacular which is spoken in most informal and family contexts is Creole. I think Indian literature in English and in the vernacular can only reach greatness consistently if the two interact and feed off one another. They introduced rhythm and rhyme into medieval poetry and wrote both in Latin and in the vernacular. I think the colonial language or the vernacular that I use in the novel comes directly from that research. This is an example of a pattern that is half a millennium old, and is still potent in the vernacular as well as in formal usage. For example, in the case of Li Po, or Li Bai, his poetry is very accessible, because he uses ordinary language, vernacular that everyone can understand. Mellors is capable of approximating the language of his lord and lady; but for him, ordinary English is the vernacular. They simply called them theotisci, those who speak the vernacular, the language of the people (theod). The introduction of a narrator, speaking in the vernacular, only reinforces this separation. For a time most of them wrote in Latin, but they surely did their thinking in the vernacular. As a result, most children in Kenya are fluent in both languages, in addition to the vernacular spoken at home. Poetry and prose began to be written in the vernacular instead of Latin, and the invention of printing contributed to the spread of ideas. Previously you would be fined Rs 5 for speaking in the vernacular in school; now you are threatened with expulsion. ‘Sloan,’ used as a noun, should be poised to enter the vernacular as slang for ‘many things to many people.’ The type of estuary English that most broadcasters (certainly most broadcasters under 40) speak has become the vernacular of the age. Linguistically, In the Mecca juxtaposes standard English with the vernacular and the language of the streets. Synonyms everyday language, spoken language, colloquial speech, native speech, conversational language, common parlance, non-standard language, jargon, -speak, cant, slang, idiom, argot, patois, dialect regional language, local tongue, regionalism, localism, provincialism informal lingo, local lingo, patter, geekspeak rare idiolect 1.1informal with adjective or noun modifier The terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity. 〈非正式〉行话；术语 mass noun gardening vernacular 园艺术语。 Example sentencesExamples Lewis and her editor have created a magazine for ‘insiders’ - or, to use the tired fashion vernacular, the ‘in - crowd’. Without that working language, and other such scholarly vernaculars, today's globalization discourse would be hard to imagine. Playful terms transfer the vernacular of the laboratory to the more formal written language of publications. Using NWA's original lyrics, Hack has no opportunity to parody the hip hop vernacular, as these rejected video scripts would appear to do. In the Miller Packard sections the language tends toward the vernacular of the police detective. Assets then passed as a technical term into the vernacular. It is, in the comic book vernacular, a superhero ‘origin’ story, and represents one of the most unique and credible ones ever brought to the screen. On the one hand, you have an absurdly hyped, burgeoning pop star who strikes rebel poses and affects scenester fashion and vernacular. His writing is unquestionably an authentic representation of black street life, especially his mastery of ghetto vernacular. Furthermore, to resurrect the extinct Southern vernacular expression, to ‘swan,’ means to swear, to promise. She ventures into a religious subculture's rhetorical world and returns with a thick description of fundamentalist vernacular. Folksonomies are, in essence, just vernacular vocabularies; the ad-hoc languages of intimate networks. In Virginia, he discovered and embraced the black southern vernacular as his enduring field of influence, themes, values, forms, and reference. In golf vernacular, they suffer from a condition called ‘rabbit ears.’ Synonyms phraseology, terms, expressions, words, language, parlance, vocabulary, nomenclature 2mass noun Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings. （建筑）民间风格 buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular 哥特式风格与农舍风格相融合的建筑。 Example sentencesExamples Sadly, traditional vernacular is either dying or dead - with the ironic exception of the five star coral stone and thatch beach-hotels. The rural vernacular, for example, is appropriated not for its romantic idealism but for its structural and economic efficiency. Most of the houses are bungalows or two-storey buildings, and all will be built in keeping with Arran's architectural vernacular. Furman pairs the units with his clean, elegant Hill Country vernacular. Cain's solution reinterprets plain-style southern farm vernacular and ‘shotgun’ housing in a contemporary way. Progressive vernacular is what Bernie Baker calls his architecture. Is this because he is unaware of the true essence of vernacular, the relationship between function and place? And a distinctive style it is: the romantic, aspiring skyscrapers our cover evokes are the true New York architectural vernacular. Worth noting is the film's attention to period detail - costuming and vernacular appear fully consistent with the times - and especially its look. Falmouth's new maritime museum responds to and is inspired by the muscular vernacular of nautical buildings. The result is a Shaker-like blend of craft and vernacular. The pragmatic modernism of the architecture marries well with the unfussy vernacular of the old barn. Most of the town's new developments fit quietly into the local vernacular, but some architects are trying to break the mould. If anything, it responds to an entirely different vernacular - that of the campus's former function as an air base. Rather than looking to the immediate local for its architectural reference, Voyager looks across the Indian Ocean to the Cape Dutch vernacular. adjective vəˈnakjʊləvərˈnækjələr 1(of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language. （语言）作为母语的；本国语的；本地话的；方言的 Example sentencesExamples For our French and German visitors, we have some information in their vernacular language which can be read in the museum. Of that half, translations from French lead the next-most-frequent vernacular language, Italian, by a ratio of about six to one. No record remains of the education that gave Chaucer lifelong familiarity with Latin and several vernacular languages and literatures. While many people speak English, in rural areas tribal languages are spoken, in addition to a few other vernacular languages. This issue is particularly important in the case of vernacular dialects such as AAVE or Caribbean Creoles. ‘X far from fulfils the promise of Y’ is not a vernacular construction - nobody talks like that. The introduction of English words into the vernacular dialects will gradually diminish the distance between the scientific and popular language. Packed with wisdom, vernacular language, and family lore, Redemption Song is a story about the curative power of love. This effort is further complicated by vernacular language that presents its own challenges. My familiarity with the richness and variety of vernacular language inevitably led me to become a proponent of orality in literacy. Did these vernacular languages suffer because the writers did not use their mother tongues to flesh their work? French, whose use has been protested by Kanak nationalists, is used in politics; vernacular languages are reserved for private life. ‘This manual will be translated into vernacular language to allow more access to encourage coffee farming,’ he said. The vernacular languages have been introduced as the media of instruction. Instead it will become regarded historically as a document that knowingly accelerated the demise of vernacular language usage in the Northern Territory. They wrote in Latin as well as in their various vernacular dialects. I hope that others can assemble the jagged rhythms of my stories to unlearn common misperceptions about vernacular English. 1.1 (of speech or written works) using the mother tongue of a country or region. （话语或书面作品）用本国语的；用本地话的；用方言的 vernacular literature 用本地话创作的文学。 Example sentencesExamples Crossing the barriers of vernacular literature, her works have been read by more people and she has been able to create a niche of her own. After this, Ackroyd notes, and applauds, ‘that vernacular straightforwardness… from Beowulf to the works of Sir Thomas More’. The state's prime purpose in making the vernacular English Bible accessible to ordinary people was to promote obedience. Regional variants to the vernacular revival style took account of local materials and building traditions. I identified with his heroes, laughed at his jokes, loved the vernacular power and rhythm of his prose. At a sitting of the local court a defendant used popular vernacular speech while being cross examined by the solicitor. Like Carter, Ruth performs signifiers of whiteness: she wears light colored clothing and eschews black vernacular English. Here is what I believe to be the vernacular understanding of the difference between shame, humiliation and embarrassment. This is raw material, sung with vernacular grain in the language. It is part of a vernacular literature that goes back unbroken to the fifth or sixth century, possibly earlier, and survives to this day. I don't think so - not in the popular vernacular sense of that expression. The growth of vernacular literature happened most readily in those places where the authority of the Church seemed to be weakest. Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black vernacular speech. Can we discern here an eye to the richly sensitised and widely available storehouses of our vernacular literature? The key point to remember is that biological altruism cannot be equated with altruism in the everyday vernacular sense. There are early monuments of vernacular literature from the Middle Ages, as well, that enlighten the study of medieval Europe as a whole. Many vernacular items tended to imitate known work of professional photographers. The juxtaposition of an austere exterior and grand interior is characteristic of the local vernacular tradition. Publishing of books in vernacular languages still dominates the domestic industry. Moffatt exploits the cultural resonance of photographic style by working in a variety of vernacular traditions. 2(of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings. （建筑）民间风格 vernacular buildings Example sentencesExamples Informed by simple rural vernacular buildings, Sydney's Equestrian Centre forms part of a new regional park. He reinterpreted the island's vernacular architecture which had long fascinated him. But the disadvantage is the difficulty of capturing the essence of a place and responding to the vernacular architecture. In terms of architecture, vernacular buildings are seen as the opposite of whatever is academic, high style, polite. This desktop metaphor does fulfil its chatting purpose but may, in the future, be thought of as early vernacular virtual architecture. With their straightforward gestures and careful response to the site, the firm's buildings mix modern and vernacular forms. As a painting student, I wanted to reference the landscape and things in the landscape, mostly the vernacular architecture, in my painting. The image of sustainable architecture has tended to be of vernacular buildings in a rural Arcadia. The list for 2005 includes buildings that range from modest to grand, from vernacular to modern. Over the past 20 years, the artist has increasingly brought vernacular architecture and decoration into his sculptures. Both were presidents of the Upper Wharfedale Field Society and involved in vernacular architecture. It is predominantly an adaptation of Cotswold vernacular architecture with pure arts and crafts embellishments. As is the custom in Indian vernacular architecture, Barefoot College courtyards are highly decorated at ground level. This activity can remind us that vernacular architecture is one cornerstone of our identity. Except for the vernacular architecture, it doesn't look all that different from west Texas. Is there a vernacular architecture or way of arranging space, particularly in the holy city, which has been developed or erected by devotees? A key example of this for Papanek is vernacular architecture and housing. There exist many anomalies in Zambian vernacular architecture. The principle of thermal mass is not new - it can be seen in the thick-walled, vernacular buildings of hot, dry, countries. One has a roof of fan-shaped shingles, reminiscent of the curved terracotta tiles typical of Kent and Sussex vernacular architecture. Derivatives vernacularism noun vəˈnakjʊlərɪz(ə)mvərˈnækjələˌrɪzəm My use of vernacularisms in this post seemed appropriate in the informal atmosphere of the blogosphere. Example sentencesExamples Some architects and scholars of architecture have sidestepped this question and chosen instead to experiment with vernacularism. There are no awkward phrases or vernacularisms in the texts. The ambient sights and sounds, work culture, and common vernacularisms are the story's setting. We also welcome papers that analyze any aspect of literary discourse in relation to black vernacularism. vernacularity noun vənakjʊˈlarɪtivərˌnækjəˈlɛrədi I am interested in translation in a broader sense, that is, in terms of metaphor and poetics as well as vernacularity. Example sentencesExamples Please feel free to discuss possible papers with us by email, and to suggest themes and issues that seem to you relevant to the topic of vernacularity. Everyone who is genuinely interested in problems of women's writing, vernacularity, and the construction of textual authority will have much to learn from this book. Somerset's book provides the tools to push vernacularity studies to a higher level, to the kind of serious scholarship the topic still needs. vernacularize verb vəˈnakjʊlərʌɪzvərˈnækjələˌraɪz [with object] Translate (speech or writing) into the vernacular of a country or region. the liturgy had been vernacularized Example sentencesExamples The problem, in a sense, is that Power and his collaborators have done their vernacularizing too well. The first exorbitant use of it was to justify vernacularizing the Mass totally and everywhere. This ended when the liturgy was vernacularized in 1965, after the Second Vatican Council. vernacularly adverb Dening is concise and helpful in asserting that history in the Pacific needs to be vernacular and ‘vernacularly tolerant’. Example sentencesExamples And cultivating friendships among neighboring competitors has proven to be a great bun-saver, vernacularly speaking. Put vernacularly, the citizens of barter-addicted countries will inevitably grow disenchanted with shoddy and shabby goods delivered late. Syriac eventually gave way vernacularly and, to some extent, liturgically, to Arabic. Origin Early 17th century: from Latin vernaculus 'domestic, native' (from verna 'home-born slave') + -ar¹. Rhymes Dracula, facula, oracular, spectacular Definition of vernacular in US English: vernacular nounvərˈnækjələrvərˈnakyələr 1usually the vernacularThe language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. 本国语；本地话；方言 he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience 为了赢得更多的读者，他用本地话写作。 Example sentencesExamples ‘Sloan,’ used as a noun, should be poised to enter the vernacular as slang for ‘many things to many people.’ The introduction of a narrator, speaking in the vernacular, only reinforces this separation. The replacement of a sacred language with the vernacular in English worship made religious reflection unavoidable. Linguistically, In the Mecca juxtaposes standard English with the vernacular and the language of the streets. For example, in the case of Li Po, or Li Bai, his poetry is very accessible, because he uses ordinary language, vernacular that everyone can understand. Using the vernacular means the church, when it teaches the language, teaches the vernacular. The type of estuary English that most broadcasters (certainly most broadcasters under 40) speak has become the vernacular of the age. They introduced rhythm and rhyme into medieval poetry and wrote both in Latin and in the vernacular. For a time most of them wrote in Latin, but they surely did their thinking in the vernacular. I'm speaking in the vernacular and simplifying, but that is really what happens. I think the colonial language or the vernacular that I use in the novel comes directly from that research. They simply called them theotisci, those who speak the vernacular, the language of the people (theod). Similar results have been found where the vernacular is a non-standard variety. This is an example of a pattern that is half a millennium old, and is still potent in the vernacular as well as in formal usage. Poetry and prose began to be written in the vernacular instead of Latin, and the invention of printing contributed to the spread of ideas. Mellors is capable of approximating the language of his lord and lady; but for him, ordinary English is the vernacular. I think Indian literature in English and in the vernacular can only reach greatness consistently if the two interact and feed off one another. Previously you would be fined Rs 5 for speaking in the vernacular in school; now you are threatened with expulsion. As a result, most children in Kenya are fluent in both languages, in addition to the vernacular spoken at home. However, the vernacular which is spoken in most informal and family contexts is Creole. Synonyms everyday language, spoken language, colloquial speech, native speech, conversational language, common parlance, non-standard language, jargon, -speak, cant, slang, idiom, argot, patois, dialect 1.1informal with adjective or noun modifier The terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity. 〈非正式〉行话；术语 gardening vernacular 园艺术语。 Example sentencesExamples In the Miller Packard sections the language tends toward the vernacular of the police detective. Without that working language, and other such scholarly vernaculars, today's globalization discourse would be hard to imagine. His writing is unquestionably an authentic representation of black street life, especially his mastery of ghetto vernacular. Lewis and her editor have created a magazine for ‘insiders’ - or, to use the tired fashion vernacular, the ‘in - crowd’. In golf vernacular, they suffer from a condition called ‘rabbit ears.’ On the one hand, you have an absurdly hyped, burgeoning pop star who strikes rebel poses and affects scenester fashion and vernacular. Using NWA's original lyrics, Hack has no opportunity to parody the hip hop vernacular, as these rejected video scripts would appear to do. She ventures into a religious subculture's rhetorical world and returns with a thick description of fundamentalist vernacular. In Virginia, he discovered and embraced the black southern vernacular as his enduring field of influence, themes, values, forms, and reference. Playful terms transfer the vernacular of the laboratory to the more formal written language of publications. Furthermore, to resurrect the extinct Southern vernacular expression, to ‘swan,’ means to swear, to promise. Assets then passed as a technical term into the vernacular. It is, in the comic book vernacular, a superhero ‘origin’ story, and represents one of the most unique and credible ones ever brought to the screen. Folksonomies are, in essence, just vernacular vocabularies; the ad-hoc languages of intimate networks. Synonyms phraseology, terms, expressions, words, language, parlance, vocabulary, nomenclature 2Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings. （建筑）民间风格 buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular 哥特式风格与农舍风格相融合的建筑。 Example sentencesExamples Sadly, traditional vernacular is either dying or dead - with the ironic exception of the five star coral stone and thatch beach-hotels. The pragmatic modernism of the architecture marries well with the unfussy vernacular of the old barn. The rural vernacular, for example, is appropriated not for its romantic idealism but for its structural and economic efficiency. If anything, it responds to an entirely different vernacular - that of the campus's former function as an air base. Furman pairs the units with his clean, elegant Hill Country vernacular. Worth noting is the film's attention to period detail - costuming and vernacular appear fully consistent with the times - and especially its look. Most of the town's new developments fit quietly into the local vernacular, but some architects are trying to break the mould. The result is a Shaker-like blend of craft and vernacular. Cain's solution reinterprets plain-style southern farm vernacular and ‘shotgun’ housing in a contemporary way. And a distinctive style it is: the romantic, aspiring skyscrapers our cover evokes are the true New York architectural vernacular. Rather than looking to the immediate local for its architectural reference, Voyager looks across the Indian Ocean to the Cape Dutch vernacular. Falmouth's new maritime museum responds to and is inspired by the muscular vernacular of nautical buildings. Is this because he is unaware of the true essence of vernacular, the relationship between function and place? Progressive vernacular is what Bernie Baker calls his architecture. Most of the houses are bungalows or two-storey buildings, and all will be built in keeping with Arran's architectural vernacular. adjectivevərˈnækjələrvərˈnakyələr 1(of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language. （语言）作为母语的；本国语的；本地话的；方言的 Example sentencesExamples My familiarity with the richness and variety of vernacular language inevitably led me to become a proponent of orality in literacy. This effort is further complicated by vernacular language that presents its own challenges. ‘X far from fulfils the promise of Y’ is not a vernacular construction - nobody talks like that. This issue is particularly important in the case of vernacular dialects such as AAVE or Caribbean Creoles. I hope that others can assemble the jagged rhythms of my stories to unlearn common misperceptions about vernacular English. Packed with wisdom, vernacular language, and family lore, Redemption Song is a story about the curative power of love. While many people speak English, in rural areas tribal languages are spoken, in addition to a few other vernacular languages. They wrote in Latin as well as in their various vernacular dialects. ‘This manual will be translated into vernacular language to allow more access to encourage coffee farming,’ he said. The introduction of English words into the vernacular dialects will gradually diminish the distance between the scientific and popular language. The vernacular languages have been introduced as the media of instruction. No record remains of the education that gave Chaucer lifelong familiarity with Latin and several vernacular languages and literatures. Of that half, translations from French lead the next-most-frequent vernacular language, Italian, by a ratio of about six to one. Instead it will become regarded historically as a document that knowingly accelerated the demise of vernacular language usage in the Northern Territory. French, whose use has been protested by Kanak nationalists, is used in politics; vernacular languages are reserved for private life. For our French and German visitors, we have some information in their vernacular language which can be read in the museum. Did these vernacular languages suffer because the writers did not use their mother tongues to flesh their work? 1.1 (of speech or written works) spoken or written using one's mother tongue. （话语或书面作品）用本国语的；用本地话的；用方言的 vernacular literature 用本地话创作的文学。 Example sentencesExamples After this, Ackroyd notes, and applauds, ‘that vernacular straightforwardness… from Beowulf to the works of Sir Thomas More’. Like Carter, Ruth performs signifiers of whiteness: she wears light colored clothing and eschews black vernacular English. Publishing of books in vernacular languages still dominates the domestic industry. Regional variants to the vernacular revival style took account of local materials and building traditions. It is part of a vernacular literature that goes back unbroken to the fifth or sixth century, possibly earlier, and survives to this day. Crossing the barriers of vernacular literature, her works have been read by more people and she has been able to create a niche of her own. This is raw material, sung with vernacular grain in the language. The juxtaposition of an austere exterior and grand interior is characteristic of the local vernacular tradition. The key point to remember is that biological altruism cannot be equated with altruism in the everyday vernacular sense. Many vernacular items tended to imitate known work of professional photographers. Here is what I believe to be the vernacular understanding of the difference between shame, humiliation and embarrassment. Can we discern here an eye to the richly sensitised and widely available storehouses of our vernacular literature? The growth of vernacular literature happened most readily in those places where the authority of the Church seemed to be weakest. Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black vernacular speech. I identified with his heroes, laughed at his jokes, loved the vernacular power and rhythm of his prose. The state's prime purpose in making the vernacular English Bible accessible to ordinary people was to promote obedience. I don't think so - not in the popular vernacular sense of that expression. Moffatt exploits the cultural resonance of photographic style by working in a variety of vernacular traditions. At a sitting of the local court a defendant used popular vernacular speech while being cross examined by the solicitor. There are early monuments of vernacular literature from the Middle Ages, as well, that enlighten the study of medieval Europe as a whole. 2(of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings. （建筑）民间风格 Example sentencesExamples With their straightforward gestures and careful response to the site, the firm's buildings mix modern and vernacular forms. This activity can remind us that vernacular architecture is one cornerstone of our identity. Over the past 20 years, the artist has increasingly brought vernacular architecture and decoration into his sculptures. The image of sustainable architecture has tended to be of vernacular buildings in a rural Arcadia. In terms of architecture, vernacular buildings are seen as the opposite of whatever is academic, high style, polite. He reinterpreted the island's vernacular architecture which had long fascinated him. It is predominantly an adaptation of Cotswold vernacular architecture with pure arts and crafts embellishments. Is there a vernacular architecture or way of arranging space, particularly in the holy city, which has been developed or erected by devotees? Except for the vernacular architecture, it doesn't look all that different from west Texas. As is the custom in Indian vernacular architecture, Barefoot College courtyards are highly decorated at ground level. But the disadvantage is the difficulty of capturing the essence of a place and responding to the vernacular architecture. Informed by simple rural vernacular buildings, Sydney's Equestrian Centre forms part of a new regional park. As a painting student, I wanted to reference the landscape and things in the landscape, mostly the vernacular architecture, in my painting. There exist many anomalies in Zambian vernacular architecture. The list for 2005 includes buildings that range from modest to grand, from vernacular to modern. The principle of thermal mass is not new - it can be seen in the thick-walled, vernacular buildings of hot, dry, countries. Both were presidents of the Upper Wharfedale Field Society and involved in vernacular architecture. One has a roof of fan-shaped shingles, reminiscent of the curved terracotta tiles typical of Kent and Sussex vernacular architecture. This desktop metaphor does fulfil its chatting purpose but may, in the future, be thought of as early vernacular virtual architecture. A key example of this for Papanek is vernacular architecture and housing. Origin Early 17th century: from Latin vernaculus ‘domestic, native’ (from verna ‘home-born slave’) + -ar.
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