idiom

idiom

noun

Definition of IDIOM

a sequence of words having a specific meaning <the English idiom “how are you doing?” is our version of a greeting that in some other languages can be translated as “how are you going?”>

Synonyms expression, idiom

Related Words cliché (also cliche); locution, term; epithet, expletive, name; byword, cry, motto, shibboleth, slogan, watchword; archaism, colloquialism, euphemism, modernism, neologism, provincialism, vulgarism