Colloquialism vs. Vernacular

Colloquialismnoun

A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression, often regional.

Colloquialismnoun

A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

Colloquialismnoun

a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

Colloquialismnoun

a word or phrase that is not formal or literary and is used in ordinary or familiar conversation

Colloquialismnoun

the use of colloquialisms

Colloquialism

Colloquialism or colloquial language is the linguistic style used for casual communication. It is the most common functional style of speech, the idiom normally employed in conversation and other informal contexts.

Vernacularnoun

The language of a people or a national language.

Vernacularnoun

Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

Vernacularnoun

Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.

Vernacularnoun

(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.

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.

Vernacularadjective

(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.

Vernacularadjective

(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

Vernacularadjective

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; - now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.

Vernacularnoun

The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.

Vernacularnoun

a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);

Vernacularnoun

the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

Vernacularadjective

being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;

Vernacularnoun

the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region

Vernacularnoun

the terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity

Vernacularnoun

architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings

Vernacularadjective

(of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.

Vernacularadjective

(of speech or written works) using the mother tongue of a country or region

Vernacularadjective

(of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings

Vernacular

A vernacular or vernacular language refers to the language or dialect that is spoken by people that are inhabiting a particular country or region. The vernacular is typically the native language, normally spoken informally rather than written, and seen as of lower status than more codified forms.