vulgar
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈvʌl.ɡə/
美 /ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A common, ordinary person.
— 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.
- The common people.
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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, […]
形容词 adj.
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Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
— vulgar language
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Having to do with ordinary, common people.
— Near-synonyms: vulgate; vulgarized
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Common, usual; of the typical kind.
— vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)
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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.
词源
词源 1
From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).
词源 2
From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).
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