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Eliot
- noun - British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
- British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880)
Griot
- noun - a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village
Idio-
- - A combining form from the Greek 'i`dios, meaning private, personal, peculiar, distinct.
Idiom
- noun - a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
- the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom"
- the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
Idiot
- noun - a person of subnormal intelligence
Ilio-
- - A combining form used in anatomy to denote connection with, or relation to, the ilium; as, ilio-femoral, ilio-lumbar, ilio-psoas, etc.
Ilion
- noun - an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War
Inion
- noun - the craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance)
Ixion
- unknown - King of Thessaly in Greek legend. Zeus punished him for attempting to seduce the God's wife, Hera, and bound him to a fiery wheel in perpetual motion in the Underworld
Khios
- noun - an island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey; belongs to Greece