Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈɪdɪəm/
idiom
- A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, person, or group of people.
- A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, "The Other L-Word", Vanity Fair, 13 Jan 2010:
- Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of "like" has spread through the idiom of the young.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, "The Other L-Word", Vanity Fair, 13 Jan 2010:
- An established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words, often peculiar to a given language.
- 2008, Patricia Hampl, “You’re History”, in Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May (editors), Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life, Minnesota Historical Society, ISBN 9780873516303, page 134 ↗:
- You’re history, we say […] . Surely it is an American idiom. Impossible to imagine a postwar European saying, “You’re history. . . . That’s history,” meaning fuhgeddaboudit, pal.
- 2008, Patricia Hampl, “You’re History”, in Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May (editors), Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life, Minnesota Historical Society, ISBN 9780873516303, page 134 ↗:
- An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
- (programming) A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.
- (language variety) lect, languoid, dialect (loosely), vernacular (loosely), language (loosely)
- (phrase) expression (loosely), form of words (loosely), phrase (loosely), locution (loosely)
- French: idiotisme , idiome
- German: Idiom, Redewendung, Redensart, Ausdrucksweise, idiomatischer Ausdruck
- Italian: espressione idiomatica, idiotismo, idiomatismo, locuzione
- Portuguese: idioma, expressão idiomática
- Russian: идио́ма
- Spanish: idiotismo, idiomatismo, modismo
- German: Stil
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