Synonyms for phrase
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1. phrasenoun

   To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.

   Synonyms:
   figure of speech, locution

2. phrasenoun

   To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of words.

   Synonyms:
   figure of speech, locution

3. phraseverb

   To divide into melodic phrases.

   Synonyms:
   locution, figure of speech

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 WordNetRate these synonyms:4.3 / 4 votes

1. 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 idiom

2. phrase, musical phrasenoun

   a short musical passage

   Synonyms:
   musical phrase, idiom, set phrase, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom

3. idiom, 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 expression

4. phraseverb

   dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence

   Synonyms:
   musical phrase, idiom, set phrase, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom

5. give 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 voice

6. phraseverb

   divide, combine, or mark into phrases

   "phrase a musical passage"

   Synonyms:
   give voice, formulate, word, articulate

Matched Categories

1. • Arrange
   • Construction
   • Express

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. phrasenoun

   Synonyms:
   expression (forming part of a sentence)

2. phrasenoun

   Synonyms:
   idiom, peculiar expression, turn of expression

3. phrasenoun

   Synonyms:
   style, diction, phraseology, manner of expression, mode of speech

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1. phrasenoun

   Synonyms:
   idiom, diction, phraseology

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "phrase":

   sentence, expression, words, term, wording, word, formula, phrases, speech, 'expression

Suggested Resources

1. phrase

   Song lyrics by phrase -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by phrase on the Lyrics.com website.

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How to use phrase in a sentence?

1. Woodrow Wilson:

   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.'

2. Logan Pearsall Smith:

   What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

3. Harvards Sheperd Doeleman:

   We saw something so true, we saw something that really had a ring to it if you can use that phrase.

4. Constantin Stanislavski:

   We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

5. Bob Costas:

   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.'.