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Idiom

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(Gr. ibiw,ua, something peculiar and personal; ibcos, one's own, personal), a form of expression whether in words, grammatical construction, phraseology, &c., which is peculiar to a language; sometimes also a special variety of a particular language, a dialect.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Idiom'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​i/idiom.html. 1910.
 
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