a. | 1. | Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; - now used chiefly of language; |
n. | 1. | The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to |
Noun | 1. | vernacular - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" |
2. | vernacular - the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | |
Adj. | 1. | vernacular - being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" |