Definitions for idiom

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idiom id·i·om

Spelling: [id-ee-uh m]

IPA: /ˈɪd i əm/

Idiom is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in idiom (diimo).

Definitions for idiom

noun

1. an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
2. a language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people.
3. a construction or expression of one language whose parts correspond to elements in another language but whose total structure or meaning is not matched in the same way in the second language.
4. the peculiar character or genius of a language.
5. a distinct style or character, in music, art, etc.:

Origin of idiom

1565-75; Latin idiōma Greek idíōma peculiarity, specific property equivalent to idiō- (variant stem of idioûsthai to make one's own, appropriate, verbal derivative of idiós; see Examples for idiom

"Your idiom is too much for him, old man," said Holden quietly.

Later she observed that one of the most skilled in this idiom was the journalist Dorothy Parker.

The idiom and traditions of the ancient inhabitants were there preserved.

Is ‘idiom’ enough to defend to the modern reader sentences like this?

(in English idiom, 'smoking tobacco') was the unhesitating answer.

Additionally impressive is that an Australian can write so convincingly in the idiom of a country so different from her own.

What people are really afraid of is something that has its own vocabulary and idiom because it strikes them dumb.

Yet he seemed interested only in recasting GOP concepts in his own idiom.

Barny thus sheltered his falsehood under the idiom of his language.

The occasional use of the imperfect is almost his only Gaelic idiom.