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Vernacular vs Song - What's the difference?

vernacular | song |

As nouns the difference between vernacular and song

is that vernacular is the language of a people or a national language while song is wave.

As an adjective vernacular

is of or pertaining to everyday language.

As a verb song is

to shake out even.

vernacular

English

(wikipedia vernacular)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The language of a people or a national language.
    • ''A vernacular of the United States is English.
  • Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific language.
    • Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
  • Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
    • For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
  • (Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
    • Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular .

    Synonyms

    * (language unique to a group) argot, jargon, slang

    Antonyms

    * (national language) lingua franca

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to everyday language.
  • Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
    • a vernacular disease
  • (architecture) of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported
  • (art) is connected to a collective memory; not imported

    • Synonyms

    * (of everyday language) common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar * (architecture) folk

    External links

    * * * English terms derived from Etruscan ----

    song

    English

    (wikipedia song)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
  • :
  • *{{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page= 266
    • , passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song , the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
  • (label) Any musical composition.
  • Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:This subject for heroic song .
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song .
  • The act or art of singing.
  • A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
  • :
  • *(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
  • *:That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
  • Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
  • :
  • *(Benjamin Silliman) (1779–1864)
  • *:The soldier's pay is a song .
  • *
  • *:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song , and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
  • An object of derision; a laughing stock.
  • *(Bible), (w) xxx. 9
  • *:And now am I their song , yea, I am their byword.

    • Derived terms

    * birdsong * for a song * old song * on song * singsong * siren song * Song of Solomon * Song of Songs * songsheet * song sparrow * song thrush * songwise * songwriter * swan song

    See also

    * canticle * go for a song

    Anagrams

    * * * ----