idiom
Noun
- a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
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- Less specific
 
- Related
- idiomatic
 
- idiomatical
 
- idiomatic
 
- idiomatical
 
 
 
- 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”
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- Less specific
 
- More specific
 
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- stress
 
- accent
 
- accentuate
 
- dialectal
 
 
 
- the style of a particular artist or school or movement; “an imaginative orchestral idiom”
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- Less specific
- manner
 
- mode
 
- style
 
- way
 
- fashion
 
 
- More specific
- baroque
 
- baroqueness
 
- classical style
 
- order
 
- rococo
 
- High Renaissance
 
- treatment
 
- neoclassicism
 
- classicism
 
- classicalism
 
- Romanticism
 
- Romantic Movement
 
 
 
- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
- Synonyms
- idiomatic expression
 
- phrasal idiom
 
- set phrase
 
- phrase
 
 
- Less specific
- saying
 
- expression
 
- locution
 
 
- More specific
 
- Related
- phrasal
 
- give voice
 
- formulate
 
- word
 
- phrase
 
- articulate
 
- idiomatic
 
- idiomatical