Word Meanings - ITALIANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism. 2. Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy.
Related words: (words related to ITALIANISM)
- PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - PECULIARNESS
The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede. - ITALICISM
1. A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism. 2. The use of Italics. - IDIOMORPHOUS
Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock. (more info) 1. Having a form of its own. - IDIOM
1. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general - PECULIARLY
In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually. - IDIOMORPHIC
Idiomorphous. - PECULIAR
1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. - PHRASEOLOGIST
A collector or coiner of phrases. - PHRASELESS
Indescribable. Shak. - IDIOMUSCULAR
Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant. - SYMPATHY
1. Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling. They saw, but other sight instead -- a crowd Of ugly serpents! - IDIOMATIC; IDIOMATICAL
Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase. -- Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. - PHRASEOGRAM
A symbol for a phrase. - PHRASEOLOGY
1. Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style. Most completely national in his . . . phraseology. I. Taylor. 2. A collection of phrases; a phrase book. Syn. -- Diction; style. See Diction. - PHRASE
A short clause or portion of a period. Note: A composition consists first of sentences, or periods; these are subdivided into sections, and these into phrases. Phrase book, a book of idiomatic phrases. J. S. Blackie. (more info) 1. A - PECULIARITY
1. The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Swift. 2. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity. The smallest peculiarity of temper on manner. Macaulay. 3. Exclusive - ATTACHMENT
1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle. - PHRASEOLOGIC; PHRASEOLOGICAL
Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words. "This verbal or phraseological answer." Bp. Pearson. - REATTACHMENT
The act of reattaching; a second attachment. - BROMIDIOM
A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides. - DISSYMPATHY
Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference. - PERIPHRASE
The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. "To describe by enigmatic periphrases." De Quincey. - HYPIDIOMORPHIC
Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form. -- Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly, adv. - METAPHRASE
paraphrase; meta` beyond, over + fra`zein to speak: cf. F. 1. A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden. 2. An answering phrase; repartee. Mrs. Browning. - PARAPHRASER
One who paraphrases. - METAPHRASED
Translated literally. - PARAPHRASE
A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation