Usually means: Language commonly spoken by people.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word vernacular:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. vernacular: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vernacular, the vernacular: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vernacular: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vernacular, the vernacular: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vernacular: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vernacular, vernacular: Wordnik
  7. vernacular: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vernacular: Wiktionary
  9. vernacular: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vernacular: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vernacular: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vernacular: Dictionary.com
  13. vernacular: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vernacular: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Vernacular (disambiguation), Vernacular: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vernacular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vernacular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vernacular: Rhymezone
  19. vernacular: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vernacular: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vernacular: Free Dictionary
  22. vernacular: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vernacular: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vernacular: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. vernacular: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vernacular (architecture), vernacular: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vernacular: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See vernacularly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The language of a people or a national language.
noun:  Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
noun:  Language unique to a particular group of people.
noun:  A language lacking standardization or a written form.
noun:  Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
noun:  (architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
adjective:  Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
adjective:  (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
adjective:  (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
adjective:  (taxonomy) Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.

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