vernaculate

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verb

To express in the vernacular.

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Meanings

verbvernaculate (third-person singular simple present vernaculates, present participle vernaculating, simple past and past participle vernaculated)

present singular third person vernaculates · participle present vernaculating · participle past vernaculated · past vernaculated

  1. rareTo express in the vernacular.

    “It must pay pretty well for you guys to be doing that,” she vernaculated.

    1970, George Lewis, Luminous Night, page 263
    1 more example

    Casual observers like you and I, tend to think that a sharp dividing line exists between living and nonliving things, but we are, to vernaculate, dead wrong.

    1950, The Chrysanthemum and Dahlia
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APA

vernaculate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vernaculate

MLA

“vernaculate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vernaculate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vernaculate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vernaculate.

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