Dictionary

phraseology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /fɹeɪzˈɑləd͡ʒi/ (General-American)
• /fɹeɪziˈɑləd͡ʒi/ (General-American)
• /fɹeɪziˈɒləd͡ʒɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

From Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “speech”) + λόγος (lógos, “explanation”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Study of set or fixed expressions.
2. (uncountable, usually) The style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech.
   • I was riding through the forest, when suddenly (pray correct my phraseology if too worldly—you know I am not well read in these epics of the heart) I saw a knight and his lady traversing one of the glades; the golden sunshine fell athwart the green leaves, and showed their white steeds and whiter plumes, while the air around grew musical with their gentle words and laughter. 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 28:
3. (uncountable, usually) A group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group.
   • Fortunately, two servants she had brought with her, were devotedly attached to their mistress; and the others only entering her apartments at rare intervals, did not understand her mystic allusions; and she now, more than ever, affected to veil her meaning under the mysterious phraseology so much adopted by the Jacobites. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 209:
   • Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently. 1956 April, K. H. Rudolph, “Fun with "'Bradshaw"”, in Railway Magazine, page 253:
   • Light is, therefore, only an attendant circumstance in the production of the photo­graphic picture; and this seems proved by the fact of one body impressing its image upon another in the dark, when the bodies are ap­proximated at what, in electrical phraseology, is called the striking distance. 1846, unknown, “On the Theory of Photographic Action”, in Scientific American, volume 2, number 13, page 104:
4. (uncountable, usually) A collection of phrases; a phrasebook.

Forms

Deriveds

phraseologist · phraseological · phraseologism

Relateds

terminology

Translations (49)

bg фразеология (study of set or fixed expressions) · ru слог (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · fi fraseologia (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · fi fraseologia (group of specialized words and expressions) · it fraseologia (group of specialized words and expressions) · pl frazeologia (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · ja 用語 (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · cmn 用語 /用语 (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · ro frazeologie (group of specialized words and expressions) · ca fraseologia (group of specialized words and expressions) · be фразеало́гія (study of set or fixed expressions) · hy դարձվածաբանություն (study of set or fixed expressions) · tr frazeoloji (study of set or fixed expressions) · cs frazeologie (study of set or fixed expressions) · cmn 成語學 /成语学 (study of set or fixed expressions) · sq frazeologji (study of set or fixed expressions) · pl frazeologia (study of set or fixed expressions) · ru фразеоло́гия (study of set or fixed expressions) · fr phraséologie (study of set or fixed expressions) · cs výrazivo (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · sk frazeológia (study of set or fixed expressions) · es fraseología (study of set or fixed expressions) · ka ფრაზეოლოგია (study of set or fixed expressions) · pt fraseologia (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · uk фразеоло́гія (study of set or fixed expressions) · ja 言葉遣い (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · pt fraseologia (study of set or fixed expressions) · hu frazeológia (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · bg начин на изразяване (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · ca fraseologia (study of set or fixed expressions) · hu frazeológia (study of set or fixed expressions) · de Phraseologie (study of set or fixed expressions) · ru фразеоло́гия (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · pl frazeologia (group of specialized words and expressions) · cs výrazové prostředky (group of specialized words and expressions) · pt terminologia (group of specialized words and expressions) · cs dikce (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · ru стиль (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · ro frazeologie (study of set or fixed expressions) · fi fraseologia (study of set or fixed expressions) · el φρασεολογία (study of set or fixed expressions) · es fraseología (group of specialized words and expressions) · ja 表現法 (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · ja 言い回し (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · hu frazeológia (group of specialized words and expressions) · tr deyim bilimi (study of set or fixed expressions) · ja 口回し (the style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech) · it fraseologia (study of set or fixed expressions) · de Phraseologismus (group of specialized words and expressions)