idiom
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
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Sense 2 noun
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
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Sense 3 noun
the style of a particular artist or school or movement
an imaginative orchestral idiom
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Sense 4 noun
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | idiomatic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | formulation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | accent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dialectal |
| 2 | has domain usage | Related & opposite | spang |
| 2 | has domain usage | Related & opposite | euphonious |
| 2 | has domain usage | Related & opposite | forward |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | non-standard speech |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | eye dialect |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | patois |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | way |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | baroqueness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | classical style |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | order |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | rococo |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | High Renaissance |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | treatment |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | neoclassicism |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | classicism |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | Romantic Movement |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | phrase |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | phrasal |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | idiomatic |
| 4 | has domain usage | Related & opposite | out of whack |
| 4 | has domain usage | Related & opposite | in the lurch |
| 4 | has domain usage | Related & opposite | like clockwork |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | saying |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | ruralism |