Vulgar

//ˈvʌl.ɡɚ// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.

    "vulgar language"

  2. 2
    Having to do with ordinary, common people. derogatory, historical

    "Near-synonyms: vulgate; vulgarized"

  3. 3
    Common, usual; of the typical kind. especially

    "vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)"

  4. 4
    Being a vulgar fraction.

    "A fraction is vulgar if it has one integer divided by another integer, as long as the integer that's doing the dividing isn't equal to zero."

Adjective
  1. 1
    conspicuously and tastelessly indecent wordnet
  2. 2
    being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language wordnet
  3. 3
    of or associated with the great masses of people wordnet
  4. 4
    lacking refinement or cultivation or taste wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A common, ordinary person. derogatory, historical

    "Popular antiquarian writings […] frequently focused on the regional vulgars' superstitious beliefs regarding the dead and their ongoing presence—such as popular funeral rites or the vulgars' fear of church yards."

  2. 2
    The common people. collective
  3. 3
    The language of a people, especially the commoners.

    "Therefore you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female: which in the common, is woman: which together, is, abandon the society of this Female, […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).

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