Dictionary

locution en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /loʊ̯ˈkju.ʃn̩/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locūtiō, locūtiōnem (“speech”), from loquor (“speak”). Compare the French cognate locution.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A phrase or expression peculiar to or characteristic of a given person or group of people.
   • Another way fathers impact sons is that sons, once their voices have changed in puberty, invariably answer the telephone with the same locutions and intonations of their fathers. 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
   • The television show host is widely recognized for his all-too-common locutions.
2. (countable, uncountable) The use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way.
   • So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise". 1992, Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights, page 299:
3. (countable, uncountable) Style of discourse or usage, or any particular utterance in such style.
   • informal locutions
4. (countable, uncountable) A supernatural revelation where a religious figure, statue or icon speaks, usually to a saint.

Forms

Deriveds

locute · prelocution · locutionary · prolocution · locutional · locutive · mislocution · ventrilocution

Relateds

elocution · interlocutor · grandiloquent · circumlocution · colloquial · interlocution · perlocution · colloquium · soliloquy · illocution · loquacious · colloquy · eloquent

Translations (16)

pl wyrażenie (phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals) · bg израз (phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals) · ia locution (use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way) · ia locution (phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals) · pl lokucja (use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way) · el ιδιωματισμός (phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals) · el έκφραση (phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals) · el έκφραση (use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way) · pl powiedzenie (phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals) · fi ilmestys (supernatural revelation) · fi sanontatapa (phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals) · bg идиом (phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals) · pl lokucja (supernatural revelation) · es locución (use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way) · pl lokucja (phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals) · pl zwrot (phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals)