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• ilmaus• idiomi• ilmaisu• fraasi• sanonta• lauseparsi• lausuma• lauselma* * *'idiəm1) (an expression with a meaning that cannot be guessed from the meanings of the individual words: His mother passed away (= died) this morning.) idiomi2) (the expressions of a language in general: English idiom.) idiomi•- idiomatically
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idiom — ► NOUN 1) a group of words whose meaning cannot be deduced from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon). 2) a form of expression natural to a language, person, or group. 3) a characteristic mode of expression in music or art. ORIGIN… … English terms dictionary
Idiom Neutral — noun an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on Volapuk but with a vocabulary selected on the basis of the maximum internationality of the roots • Hypernyms: ↑artificial language * * * noun Usage:… … Useful english dictionary
idiom — noun Etymology: Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French idiome, from Late Latin idioma individual peculiarity of language, from Greek idiōmat , idiōma, from idiousthai to appropriate, from idios Date: 1588 1. a. the language peculiar to a… … New Collegiate Dictionary
idiom — noun /ˈɪd.i.əm/ a) A manner of speaking, a way of expressing oneself. 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.… … Wiktionary
idiom — noun 1 (C) a group of words with a meaning of its own that is different from the meanings of each separate word put together: Under the weather is an idiom meaning ill . 2 (C, U) literary a style of expression in writing, speech, or music, that… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
idiom — noun these musicians all work in the gospel idiom Syn: language, mode of expression, turn of phrase, style, speech, locution, diction, usage, phraseology, phrasing, phrase, vocabulary, terminology, parlance, jargon, argot, cant, patter … Thesaurus of popular words
idiom blend — noun A malaphor: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing a nonsensical result … Wiktionary
Idiom Neutral — noun An artificial language, partially derived from Volapük, with a vocabulary consistently selected on the basis of the maximum internationality of the roots … Wiktionary
idiom — noun 1》 a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon). ↘a form of expression natural to a language, person, or group. 2》 a characteristic mode of expression in… … English new terms dictionary
Idiom Neutral — language name=Idiom Neutral creator=Waldemar Rosenberger date=1902 setting=international auxiliary language fam1=constructed languages fam2=int. auxiliary languages posteriori=a posteriori language, developed from a heavily revised form of… … Wikipedia
idiom */ — UK [ˈɪdɪəm] / US noun Word forms idiom : singular idiom plural idioms 1) [countable] linguistics an expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of the individual words. For example, to have your feet on the ground is an idiom meaning… … English dictionary