Definitions for idioms

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idioms id·i·om

Spelling: [id-ee-uh m]

IPA: /ˈɪd i əm/

Idioms is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in idioms (diimos).

Definitions for idioms

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 idioms

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 idioms

It is, however, very difficult to acquire the idioms of the natives.

Other people did it, in their day, using their own icons and idioms.

The idioms of his boyhood days still slipped out of his mouth.

The idioms of one language cannot be preserved in a translation.

It is Gaelic, but it is full of Spanish idioms and terminations.

His studies were based mainly on the development of the various Malayan idioms.

Then, as now, the Jews adopted with facility the idioms of the countries they inhabited.

Mr. Johnson's argument was not the less stringent because his idioms were vulgar.

Nine-tenths of the idioms are not understood by the audience—and that is always most attractive!

But he was speaking in Spanish and he was not altogether at home in the idioms of the language.