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Phrasehood

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phraseologismnoun(linguistics) A fixed expression within a language, regarded as a phraseological unit.
set phrasenoun(grammar) An idiomatic expression in general.
phraseologynounThe style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech.
phrasal verbnoun(linguistics, more loosely) A phrase, consisting of a verb with a preposition and/or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning.
phrasernoun(rare) One who phrases something.
stock phrasenounA cliché.
phraseographynounThe use of phraseograms.
phrasemenoun(linguistics) An utterance, consisting of multiple words or morphemes, at least one of whose components is selectionally constrained or restricted by linguistic convention such that it is not freely chosen; a lexicalized multi-word expression.
noun phrasenoun(grammar) A phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun.
term phrasenoun(linguistics), (terminology) A phrase that has a term as its head.
proverbialismnounA proverbial phrase, or the use of proverbs.
polywordnoun(linguistics) A phrase that acts like a single word.
poeticismnoun(uncountable) Poetic style; lyricism.
pronominal phrasenoun(grammar) A phrase that functions syntactically as a pronoun.
phrasal(grammar) Consisting of multiple words, but behaving as a single part of speech.
termnounThat which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
adjective phrasenoun(grammar) A phrase that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun and which can usually be used both attributively and predicatively, can be graded, and can include an adverbial phrase as a modifier within it.
phrasal nounnoun(grammar) A noun consisting of a verb followed by a particle or preposition; the substantive counterpart of a phrasal verb (in grammar schemas that use that concept), conveying gerundive meaning.
phrasal typologynoun(linguistics) The study of phrasal verbs, idioms, and hyphenated nouns and adjectives (and of rhetorical and literary terminology) and how they are categorized or typed.
phonemehoodnoun(linguistics) The property of being a phoneme.

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