VULGAR , adjective 1. Pertaining to the common unlettered people; as vulgar life. 2. Used or practiced by common people; as vulgar sports. 3. Vernacular; national. It might be more useful to the English reader, to write in our vulgar language. 4. Common; used by all classes of people; as the vulgar version of the scriptures. 5. Public; as vulgar report. 6. Mean; rustic; rude; low; unrefined; as vulgar ninds; vulgar manners. 7. Consisting of common persons. In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter. VULGAR fractions, in arithmetic, fractions expressed by a numerator and denominator; thus 2/5. VULGAR, noun The common people. [It has no plural termination, but has often a plural verb.] The vulgar imagine the pretender to have been a child imposed on the nation.
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