Definition of Phrase

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Phrase

A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.

A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.

A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.

A short clause or portion of a period.

To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.

To use proper or fine phrases.

To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase, n., 4.

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Phrase Quotations

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Ogden Nash

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be "What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?"
Glenn Beck

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
Bette Davis

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Golda Meir

In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl Rogers

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Phrase Translations

phrase in French is revirement, locution
phrase in German is Satz, Redensart
phrase in Italian is formulare, frase, volta
phrase in Spanish is virada, formular, locucion
phrase in Swedish is fras, uttryck

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