Idiom dictionary, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 23 relations: A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, American English, American School for the Deaf, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Concise Oxford English Dictionary, De Gruyter, Deafness, Dictionary, English as a second or foreign language, First language, Glossary of nautical terms (A–L), Greek language, Idiom, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Kick the bucket, Literal and figurative language, Literal translation, Machine translation, Oxford University Press, Phrase book, Semantics, Slang dictionary, Untranslatability.

2. Dictionaries by type
3. Idioms

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing.

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American English

American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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American School for the Deaf

The American School for the Deaf (ASD), originally The American Asylum, At Hartford, For The Education And Instruction Of The Deaf, is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States, and the first school for deaf children anywhere in the western hemisphere.

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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, sometimes referred to simply as Brewer's, is a reference work containing definitions and explanations of many famous phrases, allusions, and figures, whether historical or mythical.

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is one of the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries.

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De Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.

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Deafness

Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts.

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Dictionary

A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.

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English as a second or foreign language

English as a second or foreign language refers to the use of English by individuals whose native language is different, commonly among students learning to speak and write English.

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First language

A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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Glossary of nautical terms (A–L)

This glossary of nautical terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water (mostly though not necessarily on the sea).

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Idiom

An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase. Idiom dictionary and idiom are idioms.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher in social sciences and humanities with its head office in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Kick the bucket

To kick the bucket is an English idiom considered a euphemistic, informal, or slang term meaning "to die".

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Literal and figurative language

Literal and figurative language is a distinction that exists in all natural languages; it is studied within certain areas of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics.

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Literal translation

Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately without looking at how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence.

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Machine translation

Machine translation is use of computational techniques to translate text or speech from one language to another, including the contextual, idiomatic and pragmatic nuances of both languages.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Phrase book

A phrase book or phrasebook is a collection of ready-made phrases, usually for a foreign language along with a translation, indexed and often in the form of questions and answers. Idiom dictionary and phrase book are dictionaries by type.

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Semantics

Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning.

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Slang dictionary

A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology. Idiom dictionary and slang dictionary are dictionaries by type.

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Untranslatability

Untranslatability is the property of text or speech for which no equivalent can be found when translated into another (given) language.

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See also

Dictionaries by type

• Advanced learner's dictionary
• Anagram dictionary
• Biographical dictionaries
• Conceptual dictionary
• Defining vocabulary
• Dream dictionary
• Electronic dictionary
• Encyclopedic dictionary
• Etymological dictionaries
• Etymological dictionary
• Explanatory dictionary
• Gazetteers
• Idiom dictionary
• Language-for-specific-purposes dictionary
• Lexical resource
• Machine-readable dictionary
• Medical dictionary
• Monolingual learner's dictionary
• Multi-field dictionary
• Phrase book
• Picture dictionary
• Reverse dictionary
• Rhyming dictionary
• Single-field dictionary
• Slang dictionary
• Specialized dictionary
• Sub-field dictionary
• Thesauri
• Thesaurus
• Translation dictionaries
• Visual dictionary

Idioms

• Achilles' heel
• Bricks without straw
• Circle the wagons
• Colloquialism
• Comprehension of idioms
• Embarrassment of riches
• End run
• English-language idioms
• Feeding frenzy
• Feet of clay
• Fossil word
• Get a wiggle on
• Hair's breadth
• Idiom
• Idiom dictionary
• Idioms in American Sign Language
• Irreversible binomial
• List of idioms of improbability
• Melting pot
• Pandora's box
• Proverbidioms
• Put on airs
• Say Uncle
• Tempest in a teapot
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• The blind leading the blind
• Touron

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom_dictionary

Also known as Dictionary of idioms, Idioms Lexicon.