idiom

Noun

Meaning

The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

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.

Dialect; a variant form of a language.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

phrase dialect expression locution set phrase idiomatic expression language saying accent vernacular proverb phraseology parlance colloquialism turn of phrase
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Antonyms

fact standard word accuracy silence certainty
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Hypernyms

way style saying expression manner mode

Hyponyms

rococo baroque order treatment romanticism neoclassicism

Related terms

idiosyncratic idiot idiolect

Phrases with the word

african american idiom irish idiom black idiom criminal idiom pearly kings and queens idiom early roman idiom

Anagrams

imido modii

Examples

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards. Ralph Bakshi

French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit. Peter Medawar

There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus. Peter Medawar

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices. Sergei Prokofiev

Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent. David Lee Roth

A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in... Ludwig Wittgenstein

Close letter words and terms

idiolectical idiolectically idiologus idiom blend Idiom Neutral idiomacy