counterphrase

noun

Etymology

From counter- + phrase.

  1. derived from φράσις
  2. borrowed from phrasis
  3. prefixed as counterphrase — “counter + phrase

Definitions

  1. A musical phrase that complements or responds to another phrase.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for counterphrase. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA