Antonyms for phrase

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : freyz

Phonetic Transcription : freɪz

silence
take

Definition of phrase

Origin : 1520s, "manner or style of expression," also "group of words with some unity," from Late Latin phrasis "diction," from Greek phrasis "speech, way of speaking, enunciation, phraseology," from phrazein "to express, tell," from phrazesthai "to consider," from PIE *gwhren- "to think" (see frenetic). The musical sense of "short passage" is from 1789.

noun group of words; way of speaking
verb express in words carefully

Example sentences :

This was her phrase for having entered on the dominions of England.
Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford

You might have helped me to a phrase—A conditional kind of liking!
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Having grasped a principle, we phrase it in the language of our time.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

It is the phrase they always use, and the expression has the perfect wisdom of love in it.
Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde

The phrase has haunted me since I heard it, less than an hour ago.
Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr

By the most liberal interpretation no phrase of his could be construed as a reflection on the stranger.
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

For the first time I understood the phrase, to be 'all balled up.'
Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

I am bound to admit that in French phrase it leaves much to desire.
Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards

Reading that phrase, you feel the earth is poorer for her loss.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

She was, indeed, ill-treated; but what were we, to translate the phrase?
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

Synonyms for phrase

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