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[ˈɪdɪəm], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light)
- a characteristic mode of expression in music or art
(e.g: they were both working in a neo-impressionist idiom)
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Origin
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late 16th century: from French idiome, or via late Latin from Greek idiōma ‘private property, peculiar phraseology’, from idiousthai ‘make one's own’, from idios ‘own, private’
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