Dictionary Entry
idiom
idiom is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Dialect; a variant form of a language.
- 4noun
the style of a particular artist or school or movement
"an imaginative orchestral idiom"
- 5noun
a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
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- 6noun
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
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- 7noun
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"
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