Phraseology

Definition: Phraseology

Phraseology

Noun

1. The manner in which something is expressed in words: "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton.

Date "phraseology" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Phraseology

Synonyms: choice of words (n), diction (n), phrasing (n), verbiage (n), wording (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Language	Noun: language; phraseology; speech; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect.
Phrase	Phraseology.
Style	Noun: style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language; (eloquence); authorship; la morgue litteraire.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Phraseology

English words defined with "phraseology": Blank deed ♦ Language master ♦ Phraseological ♦ Rabbinism ♦ Salvation Army, Sea language, Style of court. (references)

Specialty definitions using "phraseology": Brums, Bulls ♦ Dogs ♦ Hades ♦ Massacre of the Innocents ♦ Paper a House ♦ roger ♦ say again, Singapores, Stags. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You watch your phraseology! (The Music Man; writing credit: Meredith Willson; Franklin Lacey)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Bulgarich�Deutsches Phraseologisches Worterbuch Bulgarian�German Phraseology Dictionary (reference) Course in Basic Astrology and Its Phraseology (reference) Croatian �- German Dictionary with Grammar Detail and Phraseology (Hrvatsko - �Njemacki Rjecnik : s gramatickim podacima i frazeologijom) [Croatian (Hrvatski) Language] (reference) Phraseology for civil engineering works (reference) Phrases and Phraseology - Data and Descriptions (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Phraseology (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Marbury v. Madison	1803	Thus, the particular phraseology of the constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Bahrain	Due to local culture and conditions, techniques and phraseology that work in the U.S. may not necessarily be effective here. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way. Indeed, the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris. When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was in process of evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the work insisted by a majority vote on translating the Greek word "Aides" as "Hell"; but a conscientious minority member secretly possessed himself of the record and struck out the objectional word wherever he could find it. At the next meeting, the Bishop of Salisbury, looking over the work, suddenly sprang to his feet and said with considerable excitement: "Gentlemen, somebody has been razing 'Hell' here!" Years afterward the good prelate's death was made sweet by the reflection that he had been the means (under Providence) of making an important, serviceable and immortal addition to the phraseology of the English tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Phraseology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Phraseology" is used about 72 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	72	39,377

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "phraseology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të folur (language, parlance, speech, tongue), frazeologji. (various references)

Arabic		‏مبنى (building, construction, diction, formative, phrasing, premises, structure, style, wording), ‏لغة مميزة (lingo), ‏أسلوب (archaism, character, diction, flair, genre, language, manner, method, mode, pattern, regimen, sort, strain, style, stylization, technique, tone). (various references)

Bulgarian		фразеология (terms). (various references)

Chinese		文词. (various references)

Czech		frazeologie (phrasing), dikce (diction). (various references)

Danish		forespørgsel i næsten naturligt sprog (query language approximating to normal phraseology). (various references)

Dutch		natuurlijke taaluiting benaderende vraagtaal (query language approximating to normal phraseology), natuurlijke taal benaderende vraagtaal (query language approximating to normal phraseology). (various references)

Farsi		فهرست (Catalog, Catalogue, Concordance, Legend, Registry, Repertory, Roll, Roster, Schedule, Table), کلمه بندی (Expression, Phrase), سبک (Buoyant, Gossamer, Levigate, Levity, Mode, Order, Portable, Soft, Structure, Style, Thin, Volatile), عبارت پردازی , انشاء (Composition, Essay, Theme). (various references)

French		phraséologie. (various references)

German		Ausdrucksweise (idiom, mode of expression, parlance, phrasing, style, terms). (various references)

Greek		φρασεολογία (drawing up, wording). (various references)

Hebrew		מליצות (bombast), מליצה (figurative language, riddle, trope), נסוח (formularization, formulation, phrasing, wording). (various references)

Hungarian		kifejezésmód (elocution, idiom, locution, phrasing, terms), frazeológia. (various references)

Italian		fraseologia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		措辞 (diction, wording). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くほう (diction), そじ (diction, foundation, wording), くちまわし (an expression), いいまわし (expression). (various references)

Manx		aght loayrtys, abbyrtys (idiom). (various references)

Pig Latin		aseologyphray

Portuguese		fraseologia (phrasing), fraseológico. (various references)

Romanian		stil de exprimare, selecţia vocabularului, frazeologie (claptrap, phrase, phrase-mongering, phrasing), expresii (expressions). (various references)

Russian		фразеология. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		frazeologija. (various references)

Spanish		fraseología (phrasing, wording). (various references)

Swedish		uttryck (display, expression, expressions, locution, look, phrase, statement, term), språkbruk (parlance), fraser (phrases), fraseologi. (various references)

Turkish		sözcük seçme yöntemi, ifade tarzı (wording), deyişbilim, anlatım biçimi. (various references)

Turkmen		fraseologiяa (r). (various references)

Ukranian		фразеологія, мова (dialect, language, orison, speech, tongue, words). (various references)

Vietnamese		ngữ cú cách nói, cách viết (penmanship, wording), cách diễn đạt. (various references)

Welsh		geiriad (wording). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	phrasis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Phraseology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phaseology. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "phraseology" (pronounced 'Phra`se*ol"o*gy'): Aciurgy, Acology, Actinology, Adenology, Aerolithology, Aerology, Agnoiology, Agriology, Agrostology, Aitiology, Alethiology, Algology, Allotriophagy, Alogy, Amphibiology, Amphibology, Anagogy, Analogy, Anemology, Angelology, Angiology, Anthology, Anthropology, Anthropophagy, Antilogy, Apiology, Arachnology, Archaeology, Archelogy, Aretology, Aristology, Arteriology, Arthrology, Assyriology, Astrolithology, Astrology, Astrometeorology, Astrotheology, Atheology, Atmology, Atmospherology, Atomology, Autophagy, Bacteriology, Baggy, Balneology, Barology, Battology, Bibliology, Bibliopegy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-l-o-o-p-r-s-y"
	-1 letter: oleographs.
	-2 letters: horseplay, hypergols, oleograph, playgoers.
	-3 letters: aerology, areology, hoarsely, hypergol, hypogeal, pergolas, playgoer, rheology, serology.
	-4 letters: aerosol, apologs, apology, argyles, ephoral, galores, galoshe, gaolers, gasohol, goloshe, goorals, gophers, hoopers, hooplas, hoorays, hypogea, leprosy, loopers, parleys, paroles, parsley, pergola, plasher, players, prolegs, prologs, pyrolas, regosol, replays, reposal, roseola, shapely, sharply, shoaler, sparely, spheral.
	-5 letters: ahorse.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-l-o-o-p-r-s-y"
	+3 letters: megasporophyll.
	+4 letters: geostrophically, megasporophylls.
	+5 letters: electromyographs, glossopharyngeal, parapsychologies, phosphoglycerate.
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