Synonyms for phrase
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : freyz |
| Phonetic Transcription : freɪz |
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Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for phrase
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