locution

locution

noun

Definition of LOCUTION

a distinctive way of putting ideas into words <in the poet's somewhat affected locution, word order is often reversed and so we have “the sea serene”>

Synonyms fashion, locution, manner, mode, phraseology, tone, vein

Related Words address, delivery, elocution; archaism, colloquialism, regionalism; acceptation, connotation, denotation, expression, idiom