idiom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle French idiome, and its source, Late Latin idioma, from Ancient Greek ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “a peculiarity, property, a peculiar phraseology, idiom”), from ἰδιοῦσθαι (idioûsthai, “to make one's own, appropriate to oneself”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private, personal, peculiar, separate”). By surface analysis, idi- + -om.
Inflected forms:
form: idioms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: idiomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: used uncountably
pos: noun
tags: sometimes
Senses:
gloss: A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.
pos: noun
examples: In English, idiom requires the indefinite article in a phrase such as "she's an engineer", whereas in Spanish, idiom forbids it.
Some of the usage prescriptions improved clarity and were kept; others that yielded discordant violations of idiom were eventually revised.
gloss: A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.
pos: noun
examples: I have to use the same assignment and call to raw_input in two places. How can I avoid that? I can use the while True/break idiom: […]
gloss: A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context, etc.
pos: noun
examples: In the idiom of the day, they were sutlers, although today they'd probably be called vendors.
Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of "like" has spread through the idiom of the young.
gloss: An established phrasal expression whose meaning may not be deducible from the literal meanings of its component words.
pos: noun
examples: She often spoke in idioms, pining for salad days and complaining about pots calling the kettle black.
You’re history, we say […]. Surely it is an American idiom. Impossible to imagine a postwar European saying, “You’re history. . . . That’s history,” meaning fuhgeddaboudit, pal.
gloss: An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
pos: noun
examples: the idiom of the expressionists
Synonyms: expression
form of words
idiotism
locution
phrase
Related words: idiolect
idiosyncratic
idiot
phrasal verb
Derived words: bromidiom
idiomacy
idiomatic
idiomatical
idiomatically
idiomaticize
idiom blend
idiomless
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: parla
lang: Catalan
word: parlar
lang: Catalan
word: dialecte
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 文風 /文风
roman: wénfēng
lang: Danish
word: talemåde
lang: Finnish
word: puhetapa
lang: Finnish
word: puheenparsi
lang: Finnish
word: idiomi
lang: French
word: idiome
lang: German
word: Idiom
lang: German
word: Dialekt
lang: German
word: Mundart
lang: German
word: Redeweise
lang: German
word: Sprechweise
lang: Hungarian
word: kifejezésmód
lang: Hungarian
word: szólásmód
lang: Hungarian
word: idióma
lang: Irish
word: cor cainte
lang: Italian
word: idioma
lang: Italian
word: parlata
lang: Māori
word: kīwaha
lang: Russian
word: идио́ма
roman: idióma
lang: Russian
word: оборо́т ре́чи
roman: oborót réči
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gnàthas-cainnt
lang: Spanish
word: dicción
lang: Spanish
word: lenguaje
lang: Walloon
word: pårler
lang: Walloon
word: cåzaedje