Pertaining to the common unlettered people; as vulgar life.

Used or practiced by common people; as vulgar sports.

Vernacular; national. It might be more useful to the English reader, to write in our vulgar language.

Common; used by all classes of people; as the vulgar version of the scriptures.

Public; as vulgar report.

Mean; rustic; rude; low; unrefined; as vulgar ninds; vulgar manners.

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.

The common people. The vulgar imagine the pretender to have been a child imposed on the nation.