vernacularlyadv.
/vəˈnakjᵿləli/, U.S. /vərˈnækjələrli/ 1. In conformity with the vernacular manner; in the native or mother tongue.
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the mind > language > a language > [adverb] > in or as the native language
nativelya1613
vulgarlya1613
maternally1632
vernacly1673
vernacularly1808
1808 W. Scott Let. 23 Feb. (1932) II. 21 To expound more vernacularly, I wrote you..a swinging epistle of and concerning German Romances.
1822 New Monthly Mag. 6 298/1 He sang..very vernacularly.
1840 Fraser's Mag. 21 23 A wonder that he, a Spaniard, could write English so vernacularly.
1878 Maclear Celts (1879) viii. 123 The family, vernacularly called ‘muintir’, consisted of ‘brethren’.
2. With or among the people of a particular country.
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the world > people > nations > [adverb] > national
of (also by) nationa1387
publicly1564
nationally1647
vernacularly1839
1839 W. Maginn in Fraser's Mag. 20 263 An author so vernacularly popular as their familiar and national dramatist.
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adv.1808- breast strap
- breast surgery
- breast swimming
- breast the tape
- breast wall
- breast wheel
- breast wimble
- breast-a-breast
- breast-beam
- breast-beat
- breast-beater
- breast-beating
- breast-bundle
- breast-clout
- breast-cord
- breast-deep
- breast-fed
- breast-feed
- breast-feeder
- breast-feeding
- breast-feeds
- breast-flap
- breast-girth
- breast-hee
- breast-high