Idiomatic Meaning
/ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjPertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language.
adjResembling or characteristic of an idiom.
Sentence Examples
English is a language abounding in idiomatic expressions.
'Needless to say' is often used as an idiomatic expression in the infinitive.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The phrase 'kick the bucket' is an ____ expression for dying, not a literal action.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Learning ____ expressions is an essential part of becoming truly fluent in a new language.
Word Origin & History
From Ancient Greek ἰδιωματικός (idiōmatikós, “related to an idiom”), from ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “idiom”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"A preprocessing (or text normalization) module is necessary as a front end, since TTS [text-to-speech] systems should in principle be able to read any text, including numbers, abbreviations, acronyms, and idiomatics in any format."
— 2003, Thiery Dutoit, Yannis Stylianou, “Text-to-Speech Synthesis”, in Ruslan Mitkov, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 325:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The phrase 'kick the bucket' is an ____ expression for dying, not a literal action.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Learning ____ expressions is an essential part of becoming truly fluent in a new language.