单词	vernacular
释义	vernacularver‧nac‧u‧lar /vəˈnækjələ $ vərˈnækjələr/ noun [countable usually singular] Word Origin WORD ORIGINvernacular Origin: 1600-1700 Latin vernaculus ‘born in a place’, from verna ‘slave born in his or her owner's house’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And there may be preferred slinging techniques, attendant rituals and even a subcultural vernacular associated with the activity. In many cases this is quite unlike the vernacular of the parents' country or countries. It is bad when the inevitable exclusiveness of vernacular becomes the reason for using it. Thus, the potential for this kind of reversal is always likely to be present in vernaculars. word sets WORD SETS► Languages accented, adjectiveAfrikaans, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounArabic, nounBengali, nounbilingual, adjectiveCantonese, nounChinese, nounconversant, adjectivecreole, nounDanish, noundialect, noundictation, noundirect method, noundub, verbDutch, nounEnglish, nounEsperanto, nounFarsi, nounFlemish, nounfluent, adjectiveFrancophone, adjectiveFranglais, nounFrench, adjectiveGaelic, nounGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGreek, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHindi, nounIndo-European, adjectiveItalian, nounItalo-, prefixJapanese, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectivelinguist, nounlinguistics, nounMandarin, nounMaori, nounmodern language, nounmonolingual, adjectivemother tongue, nounmultilingual, adjectivenative speaker, nounoral, nounpatois, nounPersian, nounPolish, adjectivePortuguese, nounRomance language, nounRomany, nounRussian, nounSanskrit, nounsecond language, nounSemitic, adjectivesign, nounsign, verbsign language, nounSinhalese, nounSpanish, nounspeak, verb-speak, suffixspeaker, nounSwedish, nountransliterate, verbTurkish, nounUrdu, nounusage, nounvernacular, nounvocabulary, nounWelsh, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► in the vernacular  Galileo wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience. ► local vernacular  He lapsed into the local vernacular (=language spoken in a particular area). 1a form of a language that ordinary people use, especially one that is not the official languagein the vernacular Galileo wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience. He lapsed into the local vernacular (=language spoken in a particular area).2a style of building, music, art etc that is suitable for ordinary people—vernacular adjective:  vernacular American speech vernacular architecture
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