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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionaryid·i·om \ˈi-dē-əm\ noun ETYMOLOGY Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French idiome,from Late Latin idioma individual peculiarity of language, from Greek idiōmat-, idiōma, from idiousthai to appropriate, from idios DATE 15881. a. the language peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class : dialect b. the syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language2. an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically (as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (as Monday week for “the Monday a week after next Monday”)3. a style or form of artistic expression that is characteristic of an individual, a period or movement, or a medium or instrument the modern jazz idiombroadly : manner, style a new culinary idiomEnglish Etymologyidiom 1588, "form of speech peculiar to a people or place," from M.Frhttp://M.Fr.idiome, from L.L. idioma "a peculiarity in language," from Gk.idioma "peculiarity, peculiar phraseology," from idioumai "I make my own," from idios "personal, private," prop. particular to oneself,” from PIE *swed-yo-, suffixed form of base *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. Skt. svah, Avestan hva-, O.Pers. huva "one's own," khva-data "lord," lit. "created from oneself;" Gk. hos "he, she, it;" L. suescere "to accustom, get accustomed," sodalis "companion;" O.C.S. svoji "his, her, its," svojaku "relative, kinsman;" Goth. swes "one's own;" O.N. sik"oneself;" Ger. Sein; O.Irhttp://O.Ir. fein "self, himself"). Idiomatic is first attested 1712.Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7idiomidiom / 5idiEm / noun1. [C] a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of the individual words 习语；成语；惯用语: 'Let the cat out of the bag' is an idiom meaning to tell a secret by mistake. "让猫从袋子里跑出来"是惯用语,意思是无意中泄露秘密。 ⇨ note at word 2. [U, C] (formal) the kind of language and grammar used by particular people at a particular time or place (某时期或某地区的人的)语言和语法3. [U, C] (formal) the style of writing, music, art, etc. that is typical of a particular person, group, period or place (写作、音乐、艺术等的)典型风格: the classical / contemporary / popular idiom 古典/当代/通俗风格 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus-11th Editionn. Function: noun Synonyms: LANGUAGE 1, dialect, speech, tongue, vernacularWebster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridgedid·i·om\ˈidēəm\ noun(-s)Etymology: Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French idiome, from Late Latin idioma, from Greek idiōma peculiarity, peculiarity of style, idiom, from idiousthai to appropriate, from idios one's own, private, peculiar — more at idiot1. a. : the language proper or peculiar to a people or to a district, community, or class : tongue, dialect b. : the syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language : the genius, habit, or cast of a language2. : an expression established in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in grammatical construction (as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning that cannot be derived as a whole from the conjoined meanings of its elements (as Monday week for “the Monday a week after next Monday”; many a for “many taken distributively”; had better for “might better”; how are you? for “what is the state of your health or feelings?”)3. : a style or form of artistic expression (as in painting, writing, composing) that is characteristic especially of an individual, a period or movement, or a medium or instrument < an interesting orchestral idiom > < surrealist idiom > < imagination has its specific hereditary idioms — George Santayana >Synonyms: see language

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