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vernacular

adjective as in native, colloquial

noun as in native language

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A millennial who came to South Korea 10 years ago, she has adapted her accent and vernacular to sound like a local, including using the ubiquitous English loanwords that are never used in North Korea.

From Ozy

The concept in science is a bit different than the everyday vernacular.

Such wide-reaching adoption is possible because language models, the engines behind natural language processing, can be trained to learn a specific vernacular.

These companies have been in a four-year race to gather data in local languages, develop chatbots and voice recognition tools, and help businesses communicate with customers in their own vernacular.

From Quartz

Seeing the opportunity to cash in on TikTok’s audience, vernacular language social network platform ShareChat launched Moj, entertainment company Zee5 released HiPi, and music-streaming giant Gaana created HotShots.

From Quartz

And every word has a definition, even if the phrase is viewed as one way in the vernacular.

It is not, as Hoeke claimed, “slang” pulled from American hip-hop vernacular and wittily included in her magazine.

It was amusing, it was in my vernacular, and the atmosphere held great emotional resonance for me.

For me, no friend represents this new vernacular of modern manhood more than David Black.

Anytime boys, even girls, use femininity as a vernacular people are judged harshly.

Acquinoshinee, or United People, the vernacular name of the Iroquois for their confederacy.

One of the maxims of Greek business life, translated into the American vernacular, is 'Put out the other fellow's eye.'

Sometimes we trod on "duck boards" as the Americans call them, or "bath mats" in the Britisher's vernacular, laid end to end.

There are two classes of these: those to whom it is vernacular, and those who learn it in addition to their own language.

Do you agree with the prediction that within a century English will be the vernacular of a quarter of the people of the world?

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On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vernacular, such as: indigenous, vulgar, common, local, natural, and ordinary.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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