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AMBAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ambage mean?
• AMBAGE (noun)
The noun AMBAGE has 1 sense:
1. a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Familiarity information: AMBAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
ambage; circumlocution; periphrasis
Hypernyms ("ambage" is a kind of...):
verboseness; verbosity (an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words)
Derivation:
ambagious (roundabout and unnecessarily wordy)
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