idiom – English noun declension

English noun forms of idiom

Noun: idiom
Singularidiom
Pluralidioms; idiomata

Sample Sentences

  • In English, idiom requires the indefinite article in a phrase such as "she's an engineer", whereas in Spanish, idiom forbids it.
  • Some of the usage prescriptions improved clarity and were kept; others that yielded discordant violations of idiom were eventually revised.
  • I have to use the same assignment and call to raw_input in two places. How can I avoid that? I can use the while True/break idiom: […] [2005, Magnus Lie Hetland, Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional, →ISBN, page 100:]
  • In the idiom of the day, they were sutlers, although today they'd probably be called vendors.
  • Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of "like" has spread through the idiom of the young. [2010 January 13, Christopher Hitchens, “The Other L-Word”, in Vanity Fair:]
  • She often spoke in idioms, pining for salad days and complaining about pots calling the kettle black.
  • You’re history, we say […]. Surely it is an American idiom. Impossible to imagine a postwar European saying, “You’re history. . . . That’s history,” meaning fuhgeddaboudit, pal. [2008, Patricia Hampl, “You’re History”, in Patricia Hampl, Elaine Tyler May, editors, Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life, Minnesota Historical Society, →ISBN, page 134:]
  • the idiom of the expressionists

Nouns inflected like idiom

charism, axiom, idiom, paradigm, telesm,

Etymology

From Middle French idiome, and its source, Late Latin idioma, from Ancient Greek ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “a peculiarity, property, a peculiar phraseology, idiom”), from ἰδιοῦσθαι (idioûsthai, “to make one's own, appropriate to oneself”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private, personal, peculiar, separate”). By surface analysis, idi- + -om. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἰδίωμα'.

Verbs referencing "idiom"

Polish Nouns idiom, Finnish Nouns idiomi.