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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Vernacular

/vẽrn-ăk'-yəl-ẽr/ · Ver·nac·u·lar · IPA /vɚˈnækjəlɚ/
01 a. 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 …
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    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.
    “His skill in the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue.” — Fuller.
    “Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted.” — Pope.
02 n. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learne…
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    The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.