vulgar

Middle English, 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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvʌl.ɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/

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

1. Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
   • 1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society.‎, volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217:

     Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.

   • The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.
2. (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
   • Bishop Fell

     It might be more useful to the English reader […] to write in our vulgar language.

   • Bancroft

     The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.

   • 1860, G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis‎, age 265

     Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.

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

• (obscene): vulgarity, vulgarian
• (ordinary): vulgar fraction, vulgate, Vulgate
• vulgar fraction

vulgar (plural vulgars)

1. (classicism) A common, ordinary person.
   • 2016, Evan Gottlieb, Juliet Shields, Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830

     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.

vulgar (masculine and feminine plural vulgars)

1. vulgar

• vulgarment

• vulgaritat

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

From Latin vulgāris.

vulgar m or f (plural vulgares)

1. common to the people, vulgar
2. ordinary, undistinguished
3. popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical
4. simple, unintelligent

• (ordinary): prosaico
• (popular): común, popular

• (popular): científico, técnico

• vulgaridade
• vulgarismo
• vulgo

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

From Latin vulgāris.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vuɫ.ˈɣaɾ/
• Hyphenation: vul‧gar

vulgar (plural vulgares, comparable)

1. common to the people, vulgar
2. ordinary, undistinguished
3. popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical
4. simple, unintelligent

• (ordinary): prosaico
• (popular): comum, popular

• (popular): científico, técnico

• vulgaridade
• vulgarismo
• vulgo

Borrowed from French vulgaire, Latin vulgaris.

• IPA^(key): /vulˈɡar/

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

1. vulgar

• grosolan
• ordinar
• comun

• vulg

From Latin vulgāris.

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡaɾ/

vulgar (plural vulgares)

1. vulgar

• Superlative: vulgarísimo, más vulgar

• vulgo
• vulgaridad

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