Explore Vernacular through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like argot or lingo. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Vernacular meaning
- The language of a people or a national language.
- Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- Language unique to a particular group of people.
Synonyms of Vernacular
Using Vernacular
- The main meaning on this page is: The language of a people or a national language. | Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom. | Language unique to a particular group of people.
- Useful related words include: non-standard speech, argot, lingo, jargon.
- In the example corpus, vernacular often appears in combinations such as: the vernacular, of vernacular, vernacular languages.
Context around Vernacular
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vernacular
- In this selection, "vernacular" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, american, although, latine, although, presentations and hymns stand out and add context to how "vernacular" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include african american vernacular as a and african american vernacular english which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vernacular" sits close to words such as accords, addictions and bafta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vernacular
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However, the context of the vernacular has shifted. (8 words)
All that means that semaglutide isn’t exactly a cure-all, in the vernacular sense. (15 words)
Among their concerns, planning chiefs said the planned house did not match the local “vernacular”. (15 words)
According to Ms. Wilkin, the first publisher to sign him to a songwriting deal, he had a few things to learn — and unlearn — before he arrived at the distinctive mix of vernacular and sophisticated idioms that became his stock in trade. (41 words)
He encourages children to read and speak correctly both our lingua franca and vernacular unlike what you see today, most Igbo children and adults can neither read or speak English language nor speak Igbo language without the combination of both. (40 words)
That includes practicing the ancient African art of basket making, keeping alive the ring shout music folk tradition, making a living by fishing shrimps and harvesting oysters, and speaking in an English-based creole vernacular known as Gullah. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
That is why we also have these forecasts in vernacular although vernacular presentations have challenges of failure to have equivalents in English or scientific terms.
However, the context of the vernacular has shifted.
Some new musical repertories have emerged that are shared by Ethiopians at home and abroad, notably the performance of vernacular hymns that became popular during the revolution.
The company is rooted in African American and Latine vernacular dances, specifically the street and club dances including breaking, hip-hop, house, New York style hustle, and vogue.
The difference between the “vernacular” writers and Indians writing English has not been so much of sensibility or quality as of linguistic affiliation and often social class.
The phrase Metcalf used is an amalgam of cultures, Hill noted — a recently popularized part of African American Vernacular English, which just like ASL has a unique structure, syntax and grammar that differs from English.
There’s a middle-aged woman as a “cougar” before the term ever entered our vernacular.
Which sure, is film released in the mid-40s, yet Disney kept the African American vernacular as a major plot point to the film; white child character his father’s wishes.
According to Ms. Wilkin, the first publisher to sign him to a songwriting deal, he had a few things to learn — and unlearn — before he arrived at the distinctive mix of vernacular and sophisticated idioms that became his stock in trade.
All that means that semaglutide isn’t exactly a cure-all, in the vernacular sense.
Among their concerns, planning chiefs said the planned house did not match the local “vernacular”.
Even though it is referred to as the “tuition toss” in common vernacular, Dr Pepper will get upset if you don’t call the by its proper name so that’s what we will do.
He encourages children to read and speak correctly both our lingua franca and vernacular unlike what you see today, most Igbo children and adults can neither read or speak English language nor speak Igbo language without the combination of both.
In the weeks since it hit the internet, ‘holding space’ has practically become commonplace internet vernacular, and the young stars Chalamet and Fanning are clearly in the know on the meme’s viral hilarity.
It would be clad in brick slips, blackened larch and copper to continue the vernacular of the property, with floor-to-ceiling glazed panels looking out over the rooftops.
Local manufacturers developed their own vernacular style of simple, lightweight timber buildings, suited both to the uncertain subsoils of the wetlands and the need to transport materials which, in many cases, was by water rather than road.
Phrases such as “security blanket” and “good grief” are a part of the global vernacular.
So, not only have I realized I’m behind the generational changes in vernacular, I also find myself not caring.
That includes practicing the ancient African art of basket making, keeping alive the ring shout music folk tradition, making a living by fishing shrimps and harvesting oysters, and speaking in an English-based creole vernacular known as Gullah.
The Glasgow vernacular, which has a phrase appropriate for every occasion, would sum up the league table as it stands by saying Celtic should get the jail if they fail to capitalise on their advantage.
Common combinations with vernacular
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the vernacular 61×
- of vernacular 15×
- vernacular languages 15×
- vernacular and 13×
- in vernacular 12×
- vernacular language 10×
- american vernacular 7×
- and vernacular 7×
- local vernacular 6×
- vernacular english 5×