Synonyms of phrases

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noun

plural of phrase

as in idioms

a sequence of words having a specific meaning

kids drawing literal representations of the phrase "to rain cats and dogs"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• idioms
• slogans
• expressions
• mottoes
• terms
• figures of speech
• epithets
• clichés
• colloquialisms
• locutions
• expletives
• names
• euphemisms
• neologisms
• shibboleths
• watchwords
• archaisms
• vulgarisms
• cries
• bywords
• modernisms
• provincialisms

phrases

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verb

present tense third-person singular of phrase

as in words

to convey in appropriate or telling terms

he had trouble thinking of how to phrase his question for the visiting dignitary

Synonyms & Similar Words

• words
• says
• expresses
• articulates
• states
• clothes
• puts
• formulates
• describes
• translates
• couches
• hints
• implies
• paraphrases
• crafts
• summarizes
• intimates
• suggests
• speaks
• frames
• tells
• restates
• utters
• discloses
• rephrases
• rewords
• insinuates
• verbalizes
• communicates
• vocalizes
• renders
• talks
• writes up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of phrases

Noun

Each language includes more than 2,500 words and phrases across more than 60 topics. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Deepening the flavor of place and time, the evening is peppered with Spanish phrases, interjections, exclamations and homilies. — Bill Hirschman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026

These songbirds, which gave long phrases and haunting melodies in spring, are much more subdued this time of year. — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

Stepping into the band’s lead guitarist role was Nick Johnston, a forceful presence delivering crisp musical phrases that could be fittingly elegant or snarling. — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

Brands built their product content around those phrases, and whoever optimized best for them won the traffic. — Usman Ilyas, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

As Kamphoff repeated these phrases during her race, her pace picked up. — Lennon Sherburne, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

For athletes who are conditioned by cue words or phrases, the effect might be even greater. — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Distilling 45 minutes into two meant pulling phrases from all five sections of the ballet and occasionally resetting Robbins’s steps against different passages of Prince’s score. — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026

Verb

Those fake apps were designed to steal 12- and 24-word cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Like many workplace phrases, its meaning depends on context, relationship and power. — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

Because Survivor 42 followed the same format with all the exact same twists from Survivor 41—Prisoner's Dilemma, goofy phrases, Hourglass twist, Shot in the Dark, Do or Die—along with many of the same challenges, the entire season often felt like a rerun. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026

To this day, people come up to him and quote phrases his character used to utter. — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025

In essence, the Iowa and West Virginia sports cases ask the court to rule whether a transgender girl – a person assigned male at birth who has transitioned to align with their identity as a girl or woman, as the AP Stylebook phrases it – is a girl or a boy. — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025