Colloquialism vs. Vernacular
Difference Between Colloquialism and Vernacular
Colloquialismnoun
A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression, often regional.
Vernacularnoun
The language of a people or a national language.
A vernacular of the United States is English.Colloquialismnoun
a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Vernacularnoun
Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.Vernacularnoun
Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.Vernacularnoun
(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.Vernacularadjective
Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Vernacularadjective
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
a vernacular diseaseVernacularadjective
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
Vernacularadjective
(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
Vernacularnoun
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
they don't speak our lingoVernacularnoun
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
Vernacularadjective
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;
common parlancea vernacular termvernacular speakersthe vulgar tongue of the massesthe technical and vulgar names for an animal species
