idiom
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈɪdiəm/
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idiolecto
- Learning the idiom of a community can help outsiders understand its culture and traditions.
- cultural idiom
- idiom familiarity
- familiar idiom
It's expanding the genre of sources, but expanding equally the idioms in which we're able to express ourselves.
- It's expanding the genre of sources, but expanding equally the idioms in which we're able to express ourselves.
- He was taking Greek philosophy and putting it into a Latin language, an idiom.
- And So what you've lost is a kind of idiom and an idiosyncratic American, an idiom as gone from from a certain kind of lavishly made movie.
Examples
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In his novel, the author captured the regional idiom, enriching the dialogue with local expressions.
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His grasp of the American idiom is at best shaky.
Fiction book (2001) -
Now, there can be no idiom unless there is more than one.
Academic text (1994) -
What is the idiom, the nature of the language they speak?
Fiction book (1997) -
And that was the idiom, the language in which he translated his situation.
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Is there a link between the traditional and modern idioms in African art?
Academic text (1991) -
The exchange is in the idiom of friendship or kinship.
Academic text (1994) -
And so I think between the two of them and just growing up in in Texas, the idiom, the language I grew up with is epically beautiful.
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The major thinkers of the age each used these new idioms.
Academic text (2008) -
Wrigley and her staff knew that one group's idiom may be the source of confusion and misinterpretation for another group.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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4.8
A form of language used in one area or group with its own words, grammar, and sounds
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7.9
Informal words used by a group and not for formal situations
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7.2
Words used by a group or job that others cannot understand
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7.8
Words and phrases a group uses that people outside it do not understand
Compounds
- Archaic
An international language made to help people from different countries talk
- Specialized
A group of words that together mean something different from each word alone
How Group-Specific
Surface Forms
Etymology
Idiom comes from the Greek root idios meaning 'own' and the Latin idioma meaning 'a special way of speaking'. So an idiom can mean the 'own' language, expressions, or vocabulary of a group or region.