💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Phraseologism"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| phraseologynoun | The style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech. |
| phrasehoodnoun | (linguistics) The property of being a phrase. |
| idiomnoun | A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people. |
| neologismnoun | (linguistics, lexicography, countable) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase. |
| 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. |
| colloquialismnoun | (linguistics) A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression. |
| lexemenoun | (linguistics) A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form. |
| metaphoremenoun | (linguistics) A non-literal expression with a relatively fixed lexicogrammatical form and specific semantics and pragmatics, associated with metaphoric language. |
| set phrasenoun | (grammar) An idiomatic expression in general. |
| phraseogramnoun | A symbol that represents a phrase. |
| polywordnoun | (linguistics) A phrase that acts like a single word. |
| formulationnoun | The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula. |
| dialecticismnoun | The quality of being dialectic. |
| fixed phrasenoun | Alternative form of set phrase. [(grammar) An established expression whose wording is subject to little or no variation, and which may or may not be idiomatic.] |
| phrasal verbnoun | (linguistics, more loosely) A phrase, consisting of a verb with a preposition and/or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning. |
| grammemenoun | (linguistics) A unit of grammar. |
| multi-word expressionnoun | (linguistics) A lexeme-like unit made up of a sequence of two or more words that has properties that are not predictable from the properties of the individual words or their normal mode of combination, such as an idiom ("pay the piper"), a phrasal noun ("steam iron"), a phrasal preposition ("in front of"), or a phrasal verb ("buy off"). |
| phrasenoun | A short written or spoken expression. |
| poeticismnoun | (uncountable) Poetic style; lyricism. |
| morphemenoun | (linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. It may be a letter, a syllable, or otherwise. |
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