Definition of idiom

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Idiom (n.) The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

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Barbarism :: Barbarism (n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.
Hebraism :: Hebraism (n.) A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
Grecism :: Grecism (n.) An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism.
Barbarous :: Barbarous (a.) Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
Turcism :: Turcism (n.) A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom..
Hebraistic :: Hebraistic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom..
Idiomuscular :: Idiomuscular (a.) Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant..
Scotticism :: Scotticism (n.) An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen..
Latin :: Latin (a.) Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom..
Foreignism :: Foreignism (n.) Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
Impure :: Impure (a.) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style..
Idiomorphous :: Idiomorphous (a.) Having a form of its own.
#NAME? :: -ism () A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism..
Anglo-saxonism :: Anglo-Saxonism (n.) A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue..
Atticize :: Atticize (v. i.) To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians.
Aramaism :: Aramaism (n.) An idiom of the Aramaic.
Hebraize :: Hebraize (v. t.) To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic.
Archaism :: Archaism (a.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use..
Anidiomatical :: Anidiomatical (a.) Not idiomatic.
Basidium :: Basidium (n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example..
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