Vernacular



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj.本国语, 地方语
• ［英］ adj.本国语, 地方语 ( dialect)
• ［类］ vernacular : place / jargon : profession ( 方言是地方语言 / 行话是行业语言)
• ［例］ They spoke to each other in the vernacular of the region. ( 他们用本地话互相交谈)

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Etymology: Latin vernaculus native, from verna slave born in the master's house, native
• Date: 1601
• 1.
  • a. using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language
  • b. of, relating to, or being a nonstandard language or dialect of a place, region, or country
  • c. of, relating to, or being the normal spoken form of a language
• 2. applied to a plant or animal in the common native speech as distinguished from the Latin nomenclature of scientific classification <the vernacular name>
• 3. of, relating to, or characteristic of a period, place, or group; especially of, relating to, or being the common building style of a period or place <vernacular architecture>
• ? vernacularly adverb

II. noun

• Date: 1661
• 1. a vernacular language, expression, or mode of expression
• 2. the mode of expression of a group or class
• 3. a vernacular name of a plant or animal

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