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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Grecism :: Grecism (n.) An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism.
Idiom :: Idiom (n.) The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.
Syriasm :: Syrianism (n.) A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism..
Idiom :: Idiom (n.) Dialect; a variant form of a language.
Under :: Under (adv.) In a lower, subject, or subordinate condition; in subjection; -- used chiefly in a few idiomatic phrases; as, to bring under, to reduce to subjection; to subdue; to keep under, to keep in subjection; to control; to go under, to be unsuccessful; to fail..
Doricism :: Doricism (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.
Translation :: Translation (n.) The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult..
Hebraistic :: Hebraistic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom..
Chaldaism :: Chaldaism (n.) An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.
Purity :: Purity (n.) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style..
Semitism :: Semitism (n.) A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin.
Nationalism :: Nationalism (n.) An idiom, trait, or character peculiar to any nation..
Frenchism :: Frenchism (n.) A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.
#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..
Scotticism :: Scotticism (n.) An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen..
Hypidiomorphic :: Hypidiomorphic (a.) Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form.
Dorism :: Dorism (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.
Aramaism :: Aramaism (n.) An idiom of the Aramaic.
Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage..
Archaism :: Archaism (a.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use..
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