phraseology
phraseology
nounDefinition of PHRASEOLOGY
1
a distinctive way of putting ideas into words <I recognized the writer's distinctive phraseology even before I saw the name>
Related Words address, delivery, elocution; archaism, colloquialism, regionalism; acceptation, connotation, denotation, expression, idiom
2
the way in which something is put into words <the unique phraseology of the suspect's answer stuck in my mind>
Related Words expression, formulation, locution; enunciation, phrase, speech, style, utterance, voice
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