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Synonyms for phrase
freɪzphrase
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Wiktionary
phrasenoun
To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.
Synonyms:
figure of speech, locutionphrasenoun
To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of words.
Synonyms:
figure of speech, locutionphraseverb
To divide into melodic phrases.
Synonyms:
locution, figure of speech
English Synonyms and Antonyms
phrase
An author's diction is strictly his choice and use of words, with no special reference to thought; expression regards the words simply as the vehicle of the thought. Phrase and phraseology apply to words or combinations of words which are somewhat technical; as, in legal phraseology; in military phrase. Diction is general; wording is limited; we speak of the diction of an author or of a work, the wording of a proposition, of a resolution, etc. Verbiage never bears this sense (see CIRCUMLOCUTION.) The language of a writer or speaker may be the national speech he employs; as, the English or French language; or the word may denote his use of that language; as, the author's language is well (or ill) chosen. Style includes diction, expression, rhetorical figures such as metaphor and simile, the effect of an author's prevailing tone of thought, of his personal traits — in short, all that makes up the clothing of thought in words; thus, we speak of a figurative style, a frigid or an argumentative style, etc., or of the style of Macaulay, Prescott, or others. An author's vocabulary is the range of words which he brings into his use. Compare LANGUAGE.
Synonyms:
diction, expression, language, phraseology, style, verbiage, vocabulary, wording
Princeton's WordNet
phrasenoun
an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
Synonyms:
musical phrase, idiom, set phrase, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiomphrase, musical phrasenoun
a short musical passage
Synonyms:
musical phrase, idiom, set phrase, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiomidiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase, phrasenoun
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
Synonyms:
artistic style, dialect, musical phrase, set phrase, accent, idiom, parlance, phrasal idiom, idiomatic expressionphraseverb
dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
Synonyms:
musical phrase, idiom, set phrase, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiomgive voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulateverb
put into words or an expression
"He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
Synonyms:
sound out, devise, enounce, explicate, say, develop, excogitate, enunciate, articulate, joint, pronounce, vocalise, invent, contrive, vocalize, word, forge, formulate, give voicephraseverb
divide, combine, or mark into phrases
"phrase a musical passage"
Synonyms:
give voice, formulate, word, articulate
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
phrasenoun
Synonyms:
expression (forming part of a sentence)phrasenoun
Synonyms:
idiom, peculiar expression, turn of expressionphrasenoun
Synonyms:
style, diction, phraseology, manner of expression, mode of speech
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
phrasenoun
Synonyms:
idiom, diction, phraseology
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "phrase":
sentence, expression, words, term, wording, word, formula, phrases, speech, 'expression
Suggested Resources
phrase
Song lyrics by phrase -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by phrase on the Lyrics.com website.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#496 | say | |
#562 | language | |
#676 | term | |
#792 | style | |
#810 | word | |
#881 | words | |
#1482 | develop | |
#2082 | joint | |
#2553 | expression | |
#2557 | speech | |
#3630 | formula | |
#4717 | sentence | |
#5017 | phrase | |
#8352 | phrases | |
#8447 | vocabulary | |
#8873 | accent | |
#9768 | forge | |
#15302 | wording | |
#18236 | formulate | |
#18871 | articulate | |
#21495 | invent | |
#22251 | devise | |
#23104 | dialect | |
#28483 | pronounce | |
#37219 | idiom | |
#43938 | diction | |
#68313 | parlance | |
#78060 | verbiage | |
#84177 | phraseology | |
#103482 | contrive | |
#125863 | explicate | |
#158127 | vocalise | |
#162352 | vocalize | |
#165665 | enunciate | |
#254009 | locution |
How to use phrase in a sentence?
Whoever coined the phrase 'March Madness' got it correct.
I don't use that phrase. Yet there is ample evidence that the media are often the enemy of the relevant.
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.
I recall the phrase,' It's a six-hour, daylong celebration of football, and you're not the right person to celebrate football,' to which my response was not,' Oh please, please, change your mind.' My response was,' Yeah, I guess you're right.'.
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'
Translations for phrase
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- frase, 'n fraseAfrikaans
- جُمْلَة, سِيَاق, تَعْبِيرArabic
- ifadeAzerbaijani
- изразявамBulgarian
- sintagma, fraseCatalan, Valencian
- аларChechen
- sousloví, fráze, slovní spojeníCzech
- Redewendung, formulieren, PhraseGerman
- φράζειν, φράσηGreek
- lokucioEsperanto
- formular, sintagma, frase, expresar, frasear, expresiónSpanish
- گروه واژه, عبارتPersian
- lauseke, ilmaista, pukea sanoiksi, ilmaus, fraseerata, fraasiFinnish
- locution, syntagme, expression, exprimer, phraser, phraseFrench
- frása, abairtínIrish
- abairtScottish Gaelic
- צרוף לשוןHebrew
- mondás, kifejezés, frázis, szókapcsolatHungarian
- exprimerInterlingua
- ungkapan, frasaIndonesian
- málsháttur, frasiIcelandic
- espressione, locuzione, polirematica, frase, esprimere, redigereItalian
- 句Japanese
- žodžių junginysLithuanian
- frāzeLatvian
- фраза, израз, фразира, изразуваMacedonian
- хэлцMongolian
- frasa, ungkapanMalay
- fraseNorwegian
- uitspraak, fraseDutch
- fraseNorwegian Nynorsk
- wypowiedzenie, zdaniePolish
- exprimir, expressar, expressão, locuçãoPortuguese
- sintagmă, expresie, frazăRomanian
- фраза, оборот речи, выражение, словосочетаниеRussian
- frazëAlbanian
- fras, ge, uttryck, frasera, benämna, beteckna, formulera, åt, uttryckaSwedish
- சொற்றொடர்Tamil
- วลีThai
- deyim, ifadeTurkish
- cụm từVietnamese
- fraseodVolapük
- פראַזעYiddish
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