Vernacular+language
21language — I noun communication, composition, dialect, expression, faculty of speech, folk speech, form of expression, formulation, idiom, jargon, lingua, linguistics, means of communication, oral, oratio, parlance, phrasing, phraseology, rhetoric, sermo,… …
22vernacular — index language, native (domestic), ordinary, prevailing (current), prevalent, regional, usual …
23vernacular — c.1600, native to a country, from L. vernaculus domestic, native, from verna home born slave, native, a word of Etruscan origin. Used in English in the sense of Latin vernacula vocabula, in reference to language …
24language — [n] system of words for communication accent, argot, articulation, brogue, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, doublespeak*, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, lingua franca,… …
25Vernacular — For other uses, see Vernacular (disambiguation). A vernacular is the native language or native dialect of a specific population, as opposed to a language of wider communication that is not native to the population, such as a national language or… …
26language — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) System of communication Nouns 1. language, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, protolanguage; living or dead language; idiom, parlance, phraseology; wording; dialect, patois, cant, jargon, lingo,… …
27vernacular — vernacularly, adv. /veuhr nak yeuh leuhr, veuh nak /, adj. 1. (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned). 2. expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works: a vernacular poem. 3. using such a… …
28language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… …
29Language — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Language >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 language language Sgm: N 1 phraseology phraseology &c. 569 Sgm: N 1 speech speech &c. 582 Sgm: N 1 tongue tongue lingo vernacular Sgm …
30vernacular — /vəˈnækjələ / (say vuh nakyuhluh) adjective 1. native or originating in the place of its occurrence or use, as language or words (often as opposed to literary or learned language). 2. expressed or written in the native language of a place, as… …
