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Antonyms for idioms

Grammar : Noun
Spell : id-ee-uh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪd i əm

Definition of idioms

Origin :
  • 1580s, "form of speech peculiar to a people or place," from Middle French idiome (16c.) and directly from Late Latin idioma "a peculiarity in language," from Greek idioma "peculiarity, peculiar phraseology," from idioumai "to appropriate to oneself," from idios "personal, private," properly "particular to oneself," from PIE *swed-yo-, suffixed form of root *s(w)e-, pronoun of the third person and reflexive (referring back to the subject of a sentence), also used in forms denoting the speaker's social group, "(we our-)selves" (cf. Sanskrit svah, Avestan hva-, Old Persian huva "one's own," khva-data "lord," literally "created from oneself;" Greek hos "he, she, it;" Latin suescere "to accustom, get accustomed," sodalis "companion;" Old Church Slavonic svoji "his, her, its," svojaku "relative, kinsman;" Gothic swes "one's own;" Old Norse sik "oneself;" German Sein; Old Irish fein "self, himself"). Meaning "phrase or expression peculiar to a language" is from 1620s.
  • noun manner of speaking, turn of phrase
Example sentences :
  • The idioms of his boyhood days still slipped out of his mouth.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White
  • It is, however, very difficult to acquire the idioms of the natives.
  • Extract from : « A Manual of the Malay language » by William Edward Maxwell
  • Mr. Johnson's argument was not the less stringent because his idioms were vulgar.
  • Extract from : « Felix Holt, The Radical » by George Eliot
  • His studies were based mainly on the development of the various Malayan idioms.
  • Extract from : « Elements of Folk Psychology » by Wilhelm Wundt
  • It is Gaelic, but it is full of Spanish idioms and terminations.
  • Extract from : « Romantic Ireland; volume 2/2 » by M.F and B. McM. Mansfield
  • Nine-tenths of the idioms are not understood by the audience—and that is always most attractive!
  • Extract from : « Nat Goodwin's Book » by Nat C. Goodwin
  • The idioms of one language cannot be preserved in a translation.
  • Extract from : « The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) » by Henry Osborn Taylor
  • But he was speaking in Spanish and he was not altogether at home in the idioms of the language.
  • Extract from : « The Wolf Cub » by Patrick Casey
  • Then, as now, the Jews adopted with facility the idioms of the countries they inhabited.
  • Extract from : « The Apostles » by Ernest Renan
  • In the Scandinavian idioms the plant bears the name of foxes' bells.
  • Extract from : « Birds and all Nature, Vol. VII, No. 4, April 1900 » by Various

Synonyms for idioms

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