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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Vulgar \Vul"gar\, a. [L. vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude, the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. vulgaire. Cf. {Divulge}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " -- Shak. [1913 Webster] Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise. --Milton. [1913 Webster] It might be more useful to the English reader . . . to write in our vulgar language. --Bp. Fell. [1913 Webster] The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster] 2. Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value. "Like the vulgar sort of market men." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life. --Addison. [1913 Webster] In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter. --Rambler. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners. [1913 Webster] Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. --Shak. [1913 Webster] {Vulgar fraction}. (Arith.) See under {Fraction}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Vulgar \Vul"gar\, n. [Cf. F. vulgaire.] [1913 Webster] 1. One of the common people; a vulgar person. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] These vile vulgars are extremely proud. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] 2. The vernacular, or common language. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: vulgar adj 1: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: {coarse}, {common}, {rough-cut}, {uncouth}, {vulgar}] 2: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: {common}, {plebeian}, {vulgar}, {unwashed}] 3: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: {common}, {vernacular}, {vulgar}] 4: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: {crude}, {earthy}, {gross}, {vulgar}] From Portuguese-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-por-eng]: vulgar 1. commonplace; dismal; trite 2. common; everyday; vulgar