as in colloquial
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 idiom
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as in binomial
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Recent Examples of vernacular
Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
This therapist speaks in a very specific kind of vernacular.
—EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Maya Goldman, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025
Since scammers may be non-native English speakers, poor grammar or unusual vernacular can also be a tip off of someone taking on a fake identity.
—Rachel Hale, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
In addition to the musical reconstruction, McBurney has been making a contemporary English version of the libretto, with the translator Hannah Whitley, that preserves the original’s vernacular.
—Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
This therapist speaks in a very specific kind of vernacular.
—EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
The big picture: Kennedy's philosophy, built around skepticism of corporations and mainstream science and promoting chronic disease prevention, has its own vernacular.
—Maya Goldman, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025
Since scammers may be non-native English speakers, poor grammar or unusual vernacular can also be a tip off of someone taking on a fake identity.
—Rachel Hale, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vernacular
Adjective
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Because back nine is close to backside, and backside is just far too colloquial.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Russ Scholl, a ski instructor at Breckenridge Ski Resort, has published a 133-square grid of funky colloquial phrases for different types of snow.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Even names, idioms, and cultural references are sometimes exoticized or reduced to caricatures, reinforcing narrow or misleading representations.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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At that time, writers like Ashbery and Frank O’Hara were helping to establish a new idiom in American poetry, something serious without self-seriousness: the new poetry was open to the city’s rhythms, irreverent but tender—and clearly, if not openly, gay.—
David S. Wallace,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 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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But that may be a bit of a misnomer, because that label suggests lack of change.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
16 Apr. 2025
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The name of this outdoorsy retreat in British Columbia is a bit of a misnomer.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
10 Apr. 2025
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For the first time in Coachella’s 25-year history, organizers added a live performance on the opening Thursday of the festival, known in Coachella fan parlance as Zero Day.—
Dave Brooks,
Billboard,
11 Apr. 2025
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Russia's Programs Moscow's Su-57 jet—or Felon, in NATO parlance—is widely deemed a fifth-generation aircraft, but one that has been largely absent from the Kremlin's war effort in Ukraine.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Perhaps most of all, Aera is working in an extremely crowded market that sits up against platform and toolset brand names that are more deeply adopted, more widely implemented and more comprehensively served in terms of partner ecosystem integration services.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Instead of just using a brand name, former Riva head designer Giuseppina Arena infused the famous brand's DNA into the exclusive waterfront apartments.—
Julia Zaltzman,
Robb Report,
28 Apr. 2025
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Notwithstanding the resurgence of regionalism in international affairs, none of the contributors expect the five American countries to form a coherent Western Hemisphere lobby within the G-20.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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The shift toward regionalism and local priorities over global cooperation adds further strain, complicating transactions across international borders and increasing the demand for more flexible payment infrastructures.—
Victor Orlovski,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Vernacular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vernacular. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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