Vernacular vs. Vocabulary
Difference Between Vernacular and Vocabulary
Vernacularnoun
The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language.
Vocabularynoun
All the words of a language.
Vernacularnoun
A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region
the vernaculars of New York City.Vocabularynoun
The sum of words used by, understood by, or at the command of a particular person or group.
Vernacularnoun
The specialized vocabulary of a particular trade, profession, or group
in the legal vernacular.Vocabularynoun
A list of words and often phrases, usually arranged alphabetically and defined or translated; a lexicon or glossary.
Vernacularnoun
The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.
Vocabularynoun
A supply of expressive means; a repertoire of communication
a dancer's vocabulary of movement.Vernacularadjective
Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.
Vocabularynoun
A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
Vernacularadjective
Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language
a vernacular poet.Vocabularynoun
The collection of words a person knows and uses.
My Russian vocabulary is very limited.Vernacularadjective
Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.
Vocabularynoun
The stock of words used in a particular field.
The vocabulary of social sciences is often incomprehensible to ordinary people.Vernacularadjective
Of or being an indigenous building style using local materials and traditional methods of construction and ornament, especially as distinguished from academic or historical architectural styles.
Vocabularynoun
The words of a language collectively.
The vocabulary of any language is influenced by contacts with other cultures.Vernacularadjective
Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic
a vernacular disease.Vocabularynoun
A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques
Vernacularadjective
Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a biological species.
Vocabularynoun
a listing of the words used in some enterprise
Vernacularnoun
The language of a people or a national language.
A vernacular of the United States is English.Vocabularynoun
a language user's knowledge of words
Vernacularnoun
Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.Vocabularynoun
the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts);
he introduced a wide vocabulary of techniquesVernacularnoun
Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.Vernacularnoun
(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.Vernacularadjective
Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Vernacularadjective
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
a vernacular diseaseVernacularadjective
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
Vernacularadjective
(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
Vernacularnoun
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
they don't speak our lingoVernacularnoun
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
Vernacularadjective
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;
common parlancea vernacular termvernacular speakersthe vulgar tongue of the massesthe technical and vulgar names for an animal species
