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View synonyms for phraseology

phraseology

[ frey-zee-ol-uh-jee ]

noun

  1. manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language:

    legal phraseology.

  2. expressions; phrases:

    obscure phraseology.



phraseology

/ ˌfreɪzɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl; ˌfreɪzɪˈɒlədʒɪ /

noun

  1. the manner in which words or phrases are used
  2. a set of phrases used by a particular group of people


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Derived Forms

  • phraseological, adjective
  • ˌphraseoˈlogically, adverb

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Other Words From

  • phra·se·o·log·i·cal [frey-zee-, uh, -, loj, -i-k, uh, l], phrase·o·logic adjective
  • phrase·o·logi·cal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of phraseology1

First recorded in 1600–10; from New Latin phraseologia (erroneously for unattested Greek phrasiología ), coined by German humanist Michael Neander (1525–95); phrase, -o-, -logy

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Synonym Study

See diction.

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Example Sentences

This letter indirectly points out two long-standing radical errors in engineering phraseology.

Like a clarion call the note rings in my ears, amidst the din of contending views and obscure phraseology.

Scotch shrewdness expresses itself in a phraseology all its own, and of which Donald alone possesses the secret.

Several claims may be made, but they should not be varying phraseology for the same thing.

I am allowed to receive all mail sent, "of moral contents," in the phraseology of the rules.

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