phraseology

[ frey-zee-ol-uh-jee ]
/ ˌfreɪ ziˈɒl ə dʒi /

noun

manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
expressions; phrases: obscure phraseology.

Origin of phraseology

1655–65; < New Greek phraseología (erroneously for *phrasiología), coined by German humanist Michael Neander (1525–95); see phrase, -o-, -logy

synonym study for phraseology

1. See diction.

OTHER WORDS FROM phraseology

phra·se·o·log·i·cal [frey-zee-uh-loj-i-kuh l] /ˌfreɪ zi əˈlɒdʒ ɪ kəl/, phra·se·o·log·ic, adjective phra·se·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby phraseology

phrasemaker, phrasemonger, phraseogram, phraseograph, phraseologist, phraseology, phrasing, phratry, phreak, phreaking, phreatic

Example sentences from the Web for phraseological

  • Underlying those "phraseological inversions," so daintily cooed by the dove, was the wisdom of the serpent.

    Oscar Wilde |Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

  • But in the mechanical, phraseological movement of his thought he was able to hide himself.

    Erik Dorn |Ben Hecht

British Dictionary definitions for phraseological

phraseology
/ (ˌfreɪzɪˈɒlədʒɪ) /

noun plural -gies

the manner in which words or phrases are used
a set of phrases used by a particular group of people

Derived forms of phraseology

phraseological (ˌfreɪzɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl), adjective phraseologically, adverb