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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Archaism :: Archaism (a.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use..
Frenchism :: Frenchism (n.) A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.
Hibernianism :: Hibernianism (n.) An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.
Chaldaism :: Chaldaism (n.) An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.
Celticism :: Celticism (n.) A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language..
Classicalism :: Classicalism (n.) A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism..
Idiom :: Idiom (n.) The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a 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..
Semitism :: Semitism (n.) A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin.
Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage..
Classicism :: Classicism (n.) A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.
Hebraistic :: Hebraistic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom..
Idiomatic :: Idiomatic (a.) Alt. of Idiomatica.
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..
Anglicize :: Anglicize (v. t.) To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies..
Idiomorphous :: Idiomorphous (a.) Having a form of its own.
Foreignism :: Foreignism (n.) Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
Doricism :: Doricism (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.
Anglo-saxonism :: Anglo-Saxonism (n.) A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue..
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