a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence.
(in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
Rhetoric. a word or group of spoken words that the mind focuses on momentarily as a meaningful unit and is preceded and followed by pauses.
a characteristic, current, or proverbial expression: a hackneyed phrase.
Music. a division of a composition, commonly a passage of four or eight measures, forming part of a period.
a way of speaking, mode of expression, or phraseology: a book written in the phrase of the West.
a brief utterance or remark: In a phrase, he's a dishonest man.
Dance. a sequence of motions making up part of a choreographic pattern.
verb (used with object),phrased,phras·ing.
to express or word in a particular way: to phrase an apology well.
to express in words: to phrase one's thoughts.
Music.
to mark off or bring out the phrases of (a piece), especially in execution.
to group (notes) into a phrase.
verb (used without object),phrased,phras·ing.
Music. to perform a passage or piece with proper phrasing.
Origin of phrase
First recorded in 1520–30; (noun) back formation from phrases, plural of earlier phrasis, from Latin phrasis “diction, style” (plural phrasēs), from Greek phrásis “diction, style, speech,” equivalent to phrá(zein) “to speak” + -sis-sis; (verb) derivative of the noun
synonym study for phrase
1. Phrase,expression,idiom,locution all refer to grammatically related groups of words. A phrase is a sequence of two or more words that make up a grammatical construction, usually lacking a finite verb and hence not a complete clause or sentence: shady lane (a noun phrase); at the bottom (a prepositional phrase); very slowly (an adverbial phrase). In general use, phrase refers to any frequently repeated or memorable group of words, usually of less than sentence length or complexity: a case of feast or famine—to use the well-known phrase.Expression is the most general of these words and may refer to a word, a phrase, or even a sentence: prose filled with old-fashioned expressions. An idiom is a phrase or larger unit of expression that is peculiar to a single language or a variety of a language and whose meaning, often figurative, cannot easily be understood by combining the usual meanings of its individual parts, as to go for broke.Locution is a somewhat formal term for a word, a phrase, or an expression considered as peculiar to or characteristic of a regional or social dialect or considered as a sample of language rather than as a meaning-bearing item: a unique set of locutions heard only in the mountainous regions of the South.
OTHER WORDS FROM phrase
mis·phrase,verb (used with object),mis·phrased,mis·phras·ing.un·phrased,adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for phrase
phrase
/ (freɪz) /
noun
a group of words forming an immediate syntactic constituent of a clauseCompare clause (def. 1), noun phrase, verb phrase
a particular expression, esp an original one
musica small group of notes forming a coherent unit of melody
(in choreography) a short sequence of dance movements
verb(tr)
musicto divide (a melodic line, part, etc) into musical phrases, esp in performance
to express orally or in a phrase
Word Origin for phrase
C16: from Latin phrasis, from Greek: speech, from phrazein to declare, tell
A group of grammatically connected words within a sentence: “One council member left in a huff”; “She got much satisfaction from planting daffodil bulbs.” Unlike clauses, phrases do not have both a subject and a predicate.