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Idiom
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- 1 A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.
"In English, idiom requires the indefinite article in a phrase such as "she's an engineer", whereas in Spanish, idiom forbids it."
- 2 the style of a particular artist or school or movement wordnet
- 3 A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.; A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.
"I have to use the same assignment and call to raw_input in two places. How can I avoid that? I can use the while True/break idiom: […]"
- 4 a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language wordnet
- 5 A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.
"In the idiom of the day, they were sutlers, although today they'd probably be called vendors."
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- 6 an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up wordnet
- 7 An established phrasal expression whose meaning may not be deducible from the literal meanings of its component words.
"She often spoke in idioms, pining for salad days and complaining about pots calling the kettle black."
- 8 the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people wordnet
- 9 An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
"the idiom of the expressionists"
Etymology
From Middle French idiome, and its source, Late Latin idioma, from Ancient Greek ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “a peculiarity, property, a peculiar phraseology, idiom”), from ἰδιοῦσθαι (idioûsthai, “to make one's own, appropriate to oneself”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private, personal, peculiar, separate”). By surface analysis, idi- + -om.
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