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Meaning of idiom

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  idiom
      n 1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of
           a language [syn: {parlance}, {idiom}]
      2: 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" [syn:
         {dialect}, {idiom}, {accent}]
      3: the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an
         imaginative orchestral idiom" [syn: {artistic style},
         {idiom}]
      4: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the
         meanings of the words that make it up [syn: {idiom},
         {idiomatic expression}, {phrasal idiom}, {set phrase},
         {phrase}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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