WORDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wording mean? 

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

1. the manner in which something is expressed in words

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORDING (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 ("wording" is a kind of...):

expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)

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

mot juste (the appropriate word or expression)

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

Derivation:

word (put into words or an expression)

 Context examples 

I had imagined you were consulting me only as to the wording of it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It carried a message to him beyond its mere wording.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The magistrate handed him a blue paper which the little knot of gentlemen clustered their heads over, for they were mostly magistrates themselves, and were keenly alive to any possible flaw in the wording.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)