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idiom has 8 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
“the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English”
the style of a particular artist or school or movement
“an imaginative orchestral idiom”
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for idiom come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.