See vernacular in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
A system of terms used by a people sharing a history and culture:
dialect, language, speech, tongue. (Linguistics) langue. See wordsA variety of a language that differs from the standard form:
argot, cant2, dialect, jargon, lingo, patois. See wordsSpecialized expressions indigenous to a particular field, subject, trade, or subculture:
argot, cant2, dialect, idiom, jargon, language, lexicon, lingo, patois, terminology, vocabulary. See words
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