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phraseology

noun
/fɹeɪziˈɑləd͡ʒi/US/fɹeɪziˈɒləd͡ʒɪ/UK

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “speech”) + λόγος (lógos, “explanation”).

  1. derived from φράσις

Definitions

  1. Study of set or fixed expressions.

  2. The style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech.

  3. A group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group.

    • Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A collection of phrases

      A collection of phrases; a phrasebook.

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Derived

phraseological, phraseologism, phraseologist

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phraseology. 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