idiom
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈɪdiəm/
- Literature
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estilo
- The artist expressed his thoughts using a vibrant idiom that reflected his unique style.
- visual idiom
- historical idiom
- artistic idiom
All of that builds up within the idiom of Q&A; advice column.
- All of that builds up within the idiom of Q&A; advice column.
Examples
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Shaw's high comedy transposes Coward's distinctive camp idiom into a Shavian key to produce a "post-Coward" Shaw.
Academic text (2017) -
Sometimes I use a more evocative Anglo-Saxon idiom for the latter because it's actually more accurate.
Blog text (11) -
You have to use an art idiom in the patent application.
Fiction book (2000) -
All of that builds up within the idiom of Q&A advice column.
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But both were iconoclasts driven to learn a visual idiom no one around them cared to speak.
Academic text (2008) -
Mena's is a completely aesthetic and literary idiom, alien to most people.
Academic text (2003) -
The use of this idiom represents a familiar kind of Haitian cultural judo.
Academic text (1996) -
The poetic diction is so simple that it is almost colloquial in its idiom and choice of words.
Academic text (1997) -
The different visual idioms of the portraits convey different notions of self, identity, and rulership.
Academic text (2013) -
Indeed, Bach wrote in the same baroque idiom as Vivaldi, Telemann, Handel, and dozens of others.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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3.4
A distinctive way people dress or behave that shows taste
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2.9
A way of making music with its own sounds and rules
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4.0
A particular way an artist makes and shows art
A way someone shows ideas and feelings in art, music, or writing
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 Distinctive
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 also mean an artist's or writer's 'own' style of expression that makes their work feel different or personal.