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When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.
Jim Woodring

Meaning of "idiom" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD IDIOM

From Latin idiōma peculiarity of language, from Greek.
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PRONUNCIATION OF IDIOM

idiom  [ˈɪdɪəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IDIOM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Idiom is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES IDIOM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Idiom

An idiom is a combination of words that have a figurative meaning owing to its common usage. An idiom's figurative meaning is separate from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms and they occur frequently in all languages. There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.

Definition of idiom in the English dictionary

The first definition of idiom in the dictionary is a group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent words, as for example cats and dogs. Other definition of idiom is linguistic usage that is grammatical and natural to native speakers of a language. Idiom is also the characteristic vocabulary or usage of a specific human group or subject.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IDIOM


ascidium
əˈsɪdɪəm
aspidium
æsˈpɪdɪəm
caladium
kəˈleɪdɪəm
clostridium
klɒˈstrɪdɪəm
conidium
kəʊˈnɪdɪəm
cryptosporidium
ˌkrɪptəʊspɔːˈrɪdɪəm
cymbidium
sɪmˈbɪdɪəm
iridium
aɪˈrɪdɪəm
oidium
əʊˈɪdɪəm
oncidium
ɒnˈsɪdɪəm
palladium
pəˈleɪdɪəm
peridium
pəˈrɪdɪəm
platiniridium
ˌplætɪnɪˈrɪdɪəm
praesidium
prɪˈsɪdɪəm
presidium
prɪˈsɪdɪəm
pygidium
paɪˈdʒɪdɪəm
radium
ˈreɪdɪəm
rubidium
ruːˈbɪdɪəm
stadium
ˈsteɪdɪəm
vanadium
vəˈneɪdɪəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IDIOM

idioblast
idioblastic
idiocies
idiocy
idioglossia
idiogram
idiographic
idiolect
idiolectal
idiolectic
idiomatic
idiomatical
idiomatically
idiomaticalness
idiomorphic
idiomorphically
idiomorphism
idiopathic
idiopathies
idiopathy

WORDS THAT END LIKE IDIOM

atom
axiom
bathroom
bedroom
bottom
com
custom
dom
freedom
from
kingdom
mom
om
random
Rom
room
som
tom
United Kingdom
vom

Synonyms and antonyms of idiom in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «IDIOM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «idiom» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of idiom

Translation of «idiom» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IDIOM

Find out the translation of idiom to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of idiom from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «idiom» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

成语
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

idioma
570 millions of speakers

English

idiom
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुहावरा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لغة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

идиома
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

idioma
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাগ্ধারা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

idiome
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Idiom
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Idiom
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

イディオム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

관용구
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Idiom
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thành ngữ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முதுமொழிகளில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Idiom
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

deyim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

idioma
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

idiom
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ідіома
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

idiom
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδίωμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

idioom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

idiom
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

idiom
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of idiom

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IDIOM»

The term «idiom» is quite widely used and occupies the 32.539 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IDIOM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «idiom» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «idiom» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about idiom

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10 QUOTES WITH «IDIOM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word idiom.
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Gordon W. Allport
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Nick Clegg
You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.
3
James Fenton
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.
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Christopher Hitchens
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. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.
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Garth Hudson
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Linton Kwesi Johnson
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.
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Paul Keating
I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.
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Nancy Pearcey
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
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Jim Woodring
When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.
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Dweezil Zappa
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IDIOM»

Discover the use of idiom in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to idiom and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-linguistic Model of ...
This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use.
Andreas Langlotz, 2006
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Idiom Attack 1 - Everyday Living - Chinese Edition /
Idiom Attack 1 - Everyday Living How to talk your way through idiom infested waters Swim with the natives without fear of an "Idiom Attack" Add 300 key idioms to your arsenal Be ready for 25 topics with day-to-day idioms Learn quickly with ...
Peter Nicholas Liptak, Peter Nicholas Liptak / Matthew Douma / Jay Douma, Matthew Douma, 2010
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Idiom Junkie
The Hagopian Institute presents the Idiom Junkie series: The first volume of the Great American Idioms collection contains over 1,000 of the greatest idioms in American History.
Hagopian Institute, 2008
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イディオムアタック: Everyday Living
Idiom attack may be used as a class textbook, as a reference guide, to supplement other texts or for self-study. Each chapter can be studied independently of the others so that learners or teachers can easily access the subjects that most need ...
Peter/ Nicholas Liptak, Matthew Dauma, Jay Dauma, 2010
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Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills, and Frames : the Jazz ...
A bri;llant behind the scenes portrait of the legendary figures at the early Monterey Jazz Festival
‎2008
6
The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy
This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process, to illuminate the significance of heroic concepts to a study of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories.
James C. Bulman, 1985
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The Geometry of Modernism: The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, ...
Focusing on the work of Wyndham Lewis, leader of the Vorticist movement, as well as Ezra Pound, H.D., and William Butler Yeats, Hickman examines the complex of motives out of which Lewis initially forged the geometric lexicon of Vorticism - ...
Miranda B. Hickman, 2005
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Understanding Word and Sentence
The meaning of by and large is roughly equivalent to the word generally, and the idiom itself behaves as if it were a single word. Its meaning is opaque in the same way that most word meanings are opaque. Word meanings cannot be ...
G.B. Simpson, 1991
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Idiom Comprehension in Bilingual and Monolingual Adolescents
A majority of Latino adolescents are reading below a proficient level, according to federal data, and there is a significant gap between overall reading proficiency of Latino and non-Latino, Caucasian adolescents.
Belinda Fuste-Herrmann, 2008
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Dickinson, the modern idiom
" Coupled with his close reading of the texts, Porters conceptual originality and warm sympathy open up whole vistas in Dickinsons poetry. He is keenly sensitive not only to what is present in her work but also to what is absent.
David T. Porter, 1981

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IDIOM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term idiom is used in the context of the following news items.
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Living Large in London: A Small Guide for Expats - Expat - WSJ
GETTING AROUND | “Mind the Gap” is a common idiom in London because what it represents—the “tube”—is a constant presence in the city's ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Bland struggles to cash in on golden chances - Perth Now
PUTTING, as golf's ageless idiom goes, is for dough. If so, Adam Bland might soon have to hit up Greg Chalmers for a loan. South Australian ... «Perth Now, Jul 15»
3
Rat in a haystack: Barn Hunt sics dogs on concealed critters …
“I smell a rat” is a mere idiom for most humans, but it's an easy trick for most dogs. That's because, even though dogs' brains are smaller than ... «La Crosse Tribune, Jul 15»
4
Right-Wing Racist Whack-a-Mole: Confederate Flag Comes Down …
... in their breasts—the “conscience of the conservative” to borrow another Goldwater idiom—from the realm of secrecy into the arena of policy. «AlterNet, Jul 15»
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Badal insulting Majithia to please Jaitley: Captain Amarinder - The …
Returning to his combative style and aggressive idiom, he said that after returning to power in Punjab, Congress would take revenge on Akalis ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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Improv Genius: Jazz Setlist, July 16-22 - Arts Desk
She's one of the area's best singers—a careful, precise sculptor of her own instrument and a deep student of its history in the jazz idiom. «Washington City Paper, Jul 15»
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Giddy up - Podium Events is now Idiom Events - PRWire
Podium Events is now Idiom Events. Media Release 17/7/15. Did you know that Google used to be known as BackRub? The world's #1 search engine was ... «PRWire, Jul 15»
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Bengaluru a City of contrasts, says anthropologist - Deccan Herald
Bengaluru means different things to different people but one idiom that has persisted is the 'swalpa adjust maadkoli' attitude,” Tulasi said. «Deccan Herald, Jul 15»
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Sahitya bhava reigns - The Hindu
The idiom of music inherently facilitates devotional fervour; coupled with good lyrical content, it abounds in its emotive claim. So it was with the ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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Encouraging Word: 'Every cloud has a silver lining' - The Jessamine …
... seemed to be a white carpet sparkling beneath us, and I remembered an old idiom I had heard all of my life: “Every cloud has a silver lining.”. «Central Kentucky News, Jul 15»

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