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phrase phrase

Spelling: [freyz]

IPA: /freɪz/

Phrase is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in phrase (aehprs).

Definitions for phrase

noun

1. Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
2. Rhetoric. a word or group of spoken words that the mind focuses on momentarily as a meaningful unit and is preceded and followed by pauses.
3. a characteristic, current, or proverbial expression:
4. Music. a division of a composition, commonly a passage of four or eight measures, forming part of a period.
5. a way of speaking, mode of expression, or phraseology:
6. a brief utterance or remark:
7. Dance. a sequence of motions making up part of a choreographic pattern.

verb (used with object)

1. to express or word in a particular way:
2. to express in words:
3. Music. to mark off or bring out the phrases of (a piece), especially in execution. to group (notes) into a phrase.

verb (used without object)

1. Music. to perform a passage or piece with proper phrasing.

Origin of phrase

1520-30; (noun) back formation from phrases, plural of earlier phrasis Latin phrasis diction, style (plural phrasēs) Greek phrásis diction, style, speech, equivalent to phrá(zein) to speak +

Examples for phrase

It is the phrase they always use, and the expression has the perfect wisdom of love in it.

Having grasped a principle, we phrase it in the language of our time.

This was her phrase for having entered on the dominions of England.

I admit, I chuckled when I read the phrase “boomtown effects” in the New York report.

You might have helped me to a phrase—A conditional kind of liking!

This same outlet worked the phrase “engagement to toyboy lover” into the headline of their article on Fry.

But the phrase “made it” does not properly describe Pomplamoose.

Interpreted more broadly, the phrase loses meaning: what constitutes the necessary threshold of realism?

The phrase has haunted me since I heard it, less than an hour ago.

The phrase of choice to describe Rampal is “self-styled god-man,” which has been repeated ad nauseam in the press.