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vernaculate

vernaculate verb: to express in the vernacular.

Verb

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

  1. (rare) To express in the vernacular.
    • 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
    • “It must pay pretty well for you guys to be doing that,” she vernaculated.1970, George Lewis, Luminous Night, page 263

Forms of vernaculate

third-person singular presentvernaculates
present participlevernaculating
past participlevernaculated
pastvernaculated

Questions about vernaculate

What does vernaculate mean?
Vernaculate means to express in the vernacular.
What part of speech is vernaculate?
Vernaculate is a verb.
What is the past tense of vernaculate?
The past tense of vernaculate is vernaculated.

Words near vernaculate in the dictionary

  1. vernacularizes
  2. vernacularizing
  3. vernacularly
  4. vernacularness
  5. vernaculars
  6. vernaculate
  7. vernaculated
  8. vernaculates
  9. vernaculating
  10. vernaculous
  11. vernadigin

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