as in informal
used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing
writes essays in a very easy-to-read, vernacular style
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as in colloquial
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Recent Examples of vernacular
Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
Farahani was also influenced by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, whose vernacular of parabolic curves and fins can be seen in the film.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 July 2025
Andy Mitten, New York Times, 30 July 2025
Brandon Gill: There was a time between 2014 and 2022 when leftists in academia and the media would use this kind of weird, woke, far-left vernacular.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
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Adjective
Almost three decades later, the Z-Man has taken on a life of its own, cementing itself in the Kansas Citian vernacular.
—Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
Farahani was also influenced by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, whose vernacular of parabolic curves and fins can be seen in the film.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 July 2025
Noun
There are terms of affection for groups of players like the Busby Babes or Fergie’s Fledglings, but these were coined and used by journalists and not used in everyday vernacular.
—Andy Mitten, New York Times, 30 July 2025
Brandon Gill: There was a time between 2014 and 2022 when leftists in academia and the media would use this kind of weird, woke, far-left vernacular.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vernacular
Adjective
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Cervantes’ writings mixes a high-style and an extraordinary realism, in ordinary life detail and colloquial dialogue.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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This isn’t about a desire for simpler, colloquial language.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Nonnas There's a saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) of 2025's Nonnas is the perfect depiction of the idiom.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Because the construction is a natural and graceful part of our English idiom.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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There was no third option in this binomial exercise.—
Chantel Jennings,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature.—
Jessica Damiano,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2024
Noun
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This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The name is a bit of a misnomer, though—the dinner-only restaurant serves Italian fare and local seafood, not high tea service.—
Julie Tremaine,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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However, calling Americana a bomb is a misnomer in indie film economic terms, for at the end of the day, the movie is expected to be profitable for Lionsgate on a small level under their Lionsgate Premiere Releasing label.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
17 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The hard problem is explaining how and why beings have conscious, subjective experiences at all (qualia in philosophical parlance).—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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One part of this process, known in Senate parlance as reconciliation, provisions legislation being moved in this manner to increase the federal deficit beyond the next 10-year budget window.—
Andrea Ruth,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Tylenol is a brand name for the pain reliever acetaminophen.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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Antioxidant-rich maritime pine bark extract, sometimes referred to by the brand name Pycnogenol, may also work.—
Sam Manzella,
Flow Space,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To be clear, hip-hop in general doesn’t have a regionalism problem.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Hovering above all this is a related belief in promoting regionalism as a hedge against the flattening influence of corporate-media consolidation.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Vernacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vernacular. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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