idiom

Nouns

  • (n) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language parlance,
  • (n) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
    • the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
    • he has a strong German accent
    • it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy
    dialect, accent,
  • (n) the style of a particular artist or school or movement
    • an imaginative orchestral idiom
    artistic style,
  • (n) an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase, phrase,

Synonyms

parlance dialect accent artistic style idiomatic expression phrasal idiom set phrase phrase

Words of close approximity

idiot
idiot
idiomatic idiomatical idiomatically idiomatic expression Idiom Neutral