phraseology

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: phra=se=ol=o=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

phraseology, n. [Gr. , , phrase + -logy: cf. F. phraséologie.].

•  Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style.  [1913 Webster]

  "Most completely national in his . . . phraseology."  [1913 Webster]
•  A collection of phrases; a phrase book.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Diction; style. See Diction.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

phraseology, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a choice or arrangement of words.
2 a mode of expression.

Derivative

phraseological adj.

Etymology

mod.L phraseologia f. Gk phraseon genit. pl. of phrasis PHRASE

THESAURUS

phraseology

argot, cant, choice of words, composition, dialect, diction, expression, formulation, gibberish, gobbledygook, grammar, idiom, jargon, language, langue, lexicon, lexis, lingo, lingua, locution, mumbo jumbo, parlance, parole, patois, patter, personal usage, phrase, phrasing, rhetoric, scatology, slang, speech, stock of words, taboo language, talk, thesaurus, tongue, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbiage, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language, wordage, wordhoard, wording, words

ROGET THESAURUS

phraseology

Language

N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.

Phrase

N phrase, expression, set phrase, sentence, paragraph, figure of speech, idiom, idiotism, turn of expression, style, paraphrase, periphrase, motto, phraseology, expressed, idiomatic, in round terms, in set terms, in good set terms, set terms, in set phrases.

Style

N style, diction, phraseology, wording, manner, strain, composition, mode of expression, choice of words, mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer, command of language, authorship, la morgue litteraire, le style c'est de l'homme, style is the dress of thoughts, Various Qualities of Style.