ALL meanings of idiom
id·i·om
I i - noun idiom A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light). 1
- noun idiom set expression 1
- noun idiom dialect 1
- noun idiom style of expression 1
- noun idiom an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics. 1
- noun idiom a language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people. 1
- noun idiom a construction or expression of one language whose parts correspond to elements in another language but whose total structure or meaning is not matched in the same way in the second language. 1
- noun idiom the peculiar character or genius of a language. 1
- noun idiom a distinct style or character, in music, art, etc.: the idiom of Bach. 1
- countable noun idiom A particular idiom is a particular style of something such as music, dance, or architecture. 0
- countable noun idiom An idiom is a group of words which have a different meaning when used together from the one they would have if you took the meaning of each word separately. 0
- uncountable noun idiom Idiom of a particular kind is the language that people use at a particular time or in a particular place. 0
- noun idiom a group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent words, as for example (It was raining) cats and dogs 0
- noun idiom linguistic usage that is grammatical and natural to native speakers of a language 0
- noun idiom the characteristic vocabulary or usage of a specific human group or subject 0
- noun idiom the characteristic artistic style of an individual, school, period, etc 0
- noun idiom the language or dialect of a people, region, class, etc. 0
- noun idiom the usual way in which the words of a particular language are joined together to express thought 0
- noun idiom a phrase, construction, or expression that is recognized as a unit in the usage of a given language and either differs from the usual syntactic patterns or has a meaning that differs from the literal meaning of its parts taken together (Ex.: not a word did she say; she heard it straight from the horse's mouth) 0
- noun idiom the style of expression characteristic of an individual 0
- noun idiom a characteristic style, as in art or music 0