Definition of idiom

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Idiom (n.) An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a particular author..

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Semitism :: Semitism (n.) A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin.
Exoticism :: Exoticism (n.) The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic..
Hebraism :: Hebraism (n.) A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
Idiomuscular :: Idiomuscular (a.) Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant..
Solecism :: Solecism (n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax..
Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage..
Persism :: Persism (n.) A Persian idiom.
#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..
Doricism :: Doricism (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.
Purity :: Purity (n.) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style..
Vernacularism :: Vernacularism (n.) A vernacular idiom.
Hebraize :: Hebraize (v. i.) To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs..
Teutonicism :: Teutonicism (n.) A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism..
Romanize :: Romanize (v. t.) To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms.
Hellenism :: Hellenism (n.) A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism.
Nationalism :: Nationalism (n.) An idiom, trait, or character peculiar to any nation..
Idiomatical :: Idiomatical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase..
Idiomorphous :: Idiomorphous (a.) Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock.
Syrian :: Syriacism (n.) A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism.
Impure :: Impure (a.) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style..
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