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   vernacular

   /vəˈnakjʊlə/

   noun

   • 1. the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region: "he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience"
   • ▪ the terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity: informal "gardening vernacular"
   • 2. architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings: "buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular"

   adjective

   • 1. (of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.
   • ▪ (of speech or written works) using the mother tongue of a country or region: "vernacular literature"
   • 2. (of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings: "vernacular buildings"

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Latin vernaculus ‘domestic, native’ (from verna ‘home-born slave’) + -ar1.

   Derivatives

   • 1. vernacularism noun
   • 2. vernacularity noun
   • 3. vernacularly adverb

   Scrabble Points: 15

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