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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Syrian :: Syriacism (n.) A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism.
Archaism :: Archaism (a.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use..
Turcism :: Turcism (n.) A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom..
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..
Classicalism :: Classicalism (n.) A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism..
Classicism :: Classicism (n.) A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.
Gallicize :: Gallicize (v. t.) To conform to the French mode or idiom.
Syriasm :: Syrianism (n.) A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism..
Localism :: Localism (n.) A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.
Anglicize :: Anglicize (v. t.) To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies..
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.
Take :: Take (v. t.) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say..
Latinistic :: Latinistic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom..
Doricism :: Doricism (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.
Idiom :: Idiom (n.) Dialect; a variant form of a language.
Idiomorphous :: Idiomorphous (a.) Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock.
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..
Purity :: Purity (n.) Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style..
#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..
Hispanicism :: Hispanicism (n.) A Spanish idiom or mode of speech.
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