idiom

idiom has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.
• n.. 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.
• n.. Dialect; a variant form of a language.
• n.. the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom"
• n.. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
• n.. an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
• 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"