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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The way in which words and phrases are used in speech or writing; style.
  2. n. A set of expressions used by a particular person or group: nautical phraseology.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The form of words used in ex pressing some idea or thought; mode or style of expression; the particular words or phrases combined to form a sentence, or the method of arranging them; diction; style.
  2. n. A collection of phrases and idioms. Synonyms Style, etc. See diction.

Wiktionary

  1. n. study of set or fixed expressions
  2. n. the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech
  3. n. a group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group
  4. n. a collection of phrases; a phrasebook

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style.
  2. n. rare A collection of phrases; a phrase book.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the manner in which something is expressed in words

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek φράσις + λόγος (Wiktionary)

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