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6-letter words (1 found)

VULGAR,

5-letter words (3 found)

GLAUR,GULAR,RUGAL,

4-letter words (10 found)

AGLU,GAUR,GRAV,GUAR,GULA,GURL,RAGU,RUGA,ULVA,URVA,

3-letter words (21 found)

ALU,GAL,GAR,GAU,GUL,GUR,GUV,LAG,LAR,LAV,LUG,LUR,LUV,RAG,RAV,RUG,UVA,VAG,VAR,VAU,VUG,

2-letter words (7 found)

AG,AL,AR,GU,LA,UG,UR,

You can make 42 words from vulgar according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of vulgar

vulgar

Alternative forms

  • (early modern English): vulgare

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvʌl.ɡə/
  • (US) enPR: vŭlʹgər, IPA(key): /ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/

Adjective

vulgar (comparative more vulgar or vulgarer, superlative most vulgar or vulgarest)

  1. Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
  2. (historical or derogatory) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
  3. (especially taxonomy) Common, usual; of the typical kind.
    vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)
  4. (mathematics) Being a vulgar fraction.

Synonyms

  • (obscene): inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, profane
  • (ordinary): common, ordinary, popular

Derived terms

  • (obscene): vulgarity, vulgarian
  • (ordinary): vulgar fraction, vulgate, Vulgate
  • vulgar fraction
  • Vulgar Latin
  • vulgar Marxism
  • Vulgar Era

Translations

Noun

vulgar (plural vulgars)

  1. (historical or derogatory) A common, ordinary person.
  2. (collective) The common people.
  3. The vernacular tongue or common language of a country.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vulgāris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [bulˈɣar]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [vulˈɣa]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [vulˈɣaɾ]

Adjective

vulgar m or f (masculine and feminine plural vulgars)

  1. vulgar

Derived terms

  • vulgarment

Related terms

  • vulgaritat

Further reading

  • “vulgar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin vulgāris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bulˈɣaɾ]

Adjective

vulgar m or f (plural vulgares)

  1. common to the people, vulgar
  2. ordinary, undistinguished
    Synonym: prosaico
  3. popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical
    Synonyms: común, popular
    Antonyms: científico, técnico
  4. simple, unintelligent

Related terms

  • vulgaridade
  • vulgarismo
  • vulgarmente
  • vulgo

Noun

vulgar m (plural vulgares)

  1. vulgar (the vernacular tongue or common language of a country)

Further reading

  • “vulgar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

References

  • “uulgar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “vulgar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “vulgar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “vulgar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vulgāris.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: vul‧gar

Adjective

vulgar m or f (plural vulgares)

  1. common to the people, vulgar
  2. ordinary, undistinguished
    Synonym: prosaico
  3. popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical
    Synonyms: comum, popular
    Antonyms: científico, técnico
  4. simple, unintelligent

Related terms

  • vulgaridade
  • vulgarismo
  • vulgo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vulgaire, Latin vulgaris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vulˈɡar/

Adjective

vulgar m or n (feminine singular vulgară, masculine plural vulgari, feminine and neuter plural vulgare)

  1. vulgar
    Synonyms: grosolan, ordinar, comun

Declension

Related terms

  • vulg

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vulgāris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bulˈɡaɾ/ [bulˈɣ̞aɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: vul‧gar

Adjective

vulgar m or f (masculine and feminine plural vulgares)

  1. vulgar

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “vulgar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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