Idiom is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IDIOM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a mode of expression peculiar to a language
• a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light).
• a form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people
• the dialect of a people or part of a country.
• a characteristic mode of expression in music or art
• group of words with special 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.
• a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
• the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
• the style of a particular artist or school or movement
• an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an expression peculiar to a language

Words related to IDIOM

idiomatic14 idioms9

Words that contain IDIOM

idioms9 idiomatic14 idiomatical16 idiomorphic21 unidiomatic16 idiomorphism22 basidiomycete23 idiomatically21 idiomaticness18 idiomorphisms23 basidiomycetes24 panidiomorphic26 basidiomycetous25 idiomaticalness20 idiomaticnesses20 idiomorphically28 unidiomatically23

How to use IDIOM in a sentence

• He put the awkward idiom aside with a gracious wave of the hand.
• Even the native idiom crops out here and there in his verses.
• He has written a grammar and dictionary of that idiom, which he writes me he is shortly going to put to press.
• Even Kim marvelled at the way I mastered the idiom.
• In more ways than one you forget what is meant by idiom.
• It was a beautiful, an eloquent piece of work, and even as he delivered it he felt rather proud of his command of the Mexican idiom.
• It is regulated by an international academy, which sends round circulars and does all its business in Idiom Neutral.
• Comparing Idiom Neutral with Esperanto, it will be found that the latter admits a larger proportion of non-Romance words.
• He understands French, and is able to do it into English elegantly and accurately without any trace of foreign idiom.
• They differed in accent, in idiom, and in their very names for things.
• The word and the idiom of the literary language and the pronunciation suggested by its spelling tends to prevail over the local usage.
• There are few men, few great artists, even, who do not, before attaining their proper idiom and gesture, adopt those of their teachers and predecessors.
• He has never been vivid and ingenuous and spontaneous enough a musician even to develop a personal idiom.
• On the subject of Idiom Arlo Bates in his book “On Writing English” has some very forcible remarks.
• It scarcely needs to be asserted that in most of these cases the violation of idiom arose from haste or carelessness.
• Jose-Antonio Alvez and Coimbra spoke a kind of Portuguese mingled with a native idiom, which a native of Lisbon would scarcely have understood.
• From the racy idiom of the dwellers on or about her own estate in Galway, she happily framed a style that gave her narratives freshness, novelty, and a flavor of the soil.
• The Tibetan craving for form was satisfied, though the literally translated foreign terms must often have done violence to genuine Tibetan idiom.
• His present vogue is due to this association and to his frank adoption of Wagner idiom in his later works, as well as, more generally, to the lowered taste in Germany.
• Whether a recurring idiom is merely personal or belongs to the special work is difficult to tell.
• A true national expression will come from the particular soil and will be unconscious of its own idiom.
• It seems as if the poet, after his rude jest, wanted, half in amends, half on pure impulse, to utter a strain of true fancy in the strange new idiom.
• Thus, at a distance of eighteen hundred years, it had borne, in another idiom, the same name it still bears.
• There is an idiom in diplomacy, as well as in language, and one who treats so sensibly should not be ignorant of its phrases.
• They are understood and grow current precisely by not being pressed, like an idiom or a metaphor.
• This language about pervading the world with kindly emotion is common in Buddhist books though alien to European idiom.

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