Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vernacular word or expression.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vernacular word or expression.
- noun The use of the vernacular: the opposite of
classicalism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vernacular idiom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
vernacular idiom .
Etymologies
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vernacular + -ism
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Examples
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I thought that rather a vernacularism, if there is such a word, as soon as I had said it; but I didn't stop to apologize.
Options O. Henry 1886
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