PHRASEOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phraseology mean? 

• PHRASEOLOGY (noun)
  The noun PHRASEOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the manner in which something is expressed in words

  Familiarity information: PHRASEOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHRASEOLOGY (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 ("phraseology" is a kind of...):

expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)

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

mot juste (the appropriate word or expression)

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

 Context examples 

If it were one which would also admit of the mysterious note with its very curious phraseology, why, then it would be worth accepting as a temporary hypothesis.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She thought her the model of all excellence and endeavoured to imitate her phraseology and manners, so that even now she often reminds me of her.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The knowledge I had in mathematics, gave me great assistance in acquiring their phraseology, which depended much upon that science, and music; and in the latter I was not unskilled.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I am not sure whether I have mentioned that, when Mr. Micawber was at any particularly desperate crisis, he used a sort of legal phraseology, which he seemed to think equivalent to winding up his affairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)