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

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle

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

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 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

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli

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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