Idiom

Noun

 * 1) A manner of speaking, a way of expressing oneself.
 * 2) An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
 * 3) An expression peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language, especially when the meaning is illogical or separate from the meanings of its component words.
 * 4) * 2008, Patricia Hampl, “You’re History”, in Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May (editors), Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life, Minnesota Historical Society, ISBN 9780873516303, page 134:
 * 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.
 * 1)  A communicative system under study, which could be called either a dialect or a language, when its status as a language or dialect is irrelevant.
 * 2)  A programming construct or phraseology generally held to be the most efficient, elegant or effective means to achieve a particular result or behavior.

Synonyms

 * expression, form of words , phrase

Derived terms

 * idiomatic
 * idiomatical
 * idiomatically

Related terms

 * idiosyncratic
 * idiot

Adjectives for Idiom
delicate; racial; succinct; racy; vulgar; national; quaint; absurd.

Verbs for idiom
approve of—; cherish—; excel in—s; express in—; familiarize with—; interpret—; maintain—; repeat—; speak in—; translate.

Thesaurus
Acadian, Anglo-Indian, Brooklynese, Cajun, Canadian French, Cockney, French Canadian, Gullah, Midland, Midland dialect, New England dialect, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yankee, Yorkshire, adjectival phrase, argot, bundle of isoglosses, cant, choice of words, class dialect, clause, cliche, composition, construction, dialect, dialect dictionary, diction, expression, formulation, grammar, headed group, idiotism, isogloss, jargon, language, langue, lingo, lingua, linguistic atlas, linguistic community, linguistic island, local dialect, localism, locution, manner of speaking, noun phrase, paragraph, parlance, parole, patois, peculiar expression, period, personal usage, phrasal idiom, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, provincialism, regional accent, regionalism, rhetoric, sentence, set phrase, speech, speech community, standard phrase, subdialect, syntactic structure, talk, term, tongue, turn of expression, turn of phrase, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, utterance, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, verbiage, vernacular, way of speaking, word-group, wordage, wording

Etymology
From idioma: <  ἰδίωμα: < ἰδιοῦσθαι: < ἴδιος:.

Translations

 * Arabic: ,   ,  اصطلاح,  مصطلح
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: idiotisme
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 習慣用語,  习惯用语, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: idiotisme
 * Georgian: იდიომი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मुहावरा
 * Hungarian: idióma
 * Interlingua: idiotismo, idioma


 * Italian: idiotismo, idiomatismo
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 숙어
 * Macedonian:
 * Manx: corghlare
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: اصطلاح, زبان زد ـ زبانزد
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: gnàthas-cainnt
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: идиом
 * Roman: idiom
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: สำนวน
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: thành ngữ, thổ ngữ


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Scottish Gaelic: gnàthas-cainnt


 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: 様式


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Japanese:, 訛り

Anagrams

 * imido

Noun

 * 1) idiom

Noun

 * 1) idiom