CHOICE OF WORDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does choice of words mean? 

• CHOICE OF WORDS (noun)
  The noun CHOICE OF WORDS has 1 sense:

1. the manner in which something is expressed in words

  Familiarity information: CHOICE OF WORDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOICE OF WORDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The manner in which something is expressed in words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

choice of words; diction; phraseology; phrasing; verbiage; wording

Context example:

use concise military verbiage

Hypernyms ("choice of words" is a kind of...):

expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "choice of words"):

mot juste (the appropriate word or expression)

verbalisation; verbalization (the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization)

 Context examples 

“Allow me to inquire, Miss Trotwood,” interposed Miss Murdstone, “whom you are pleased to call, in a choice of words in which I am not experienced, my brother's instruments?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)