phrase
/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ noun B1- A short written or spoken expression. · I've made progress, but this is still, in Churchill's phrase, just "the end of the beginning."
- A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words. · Holonyms: clause, sentence; phrasing, phraseology, turn of phrase; phrase-book; document, message; language; communication· Meronyms: head, complement, adjunct, supplement, modifier; term, word
- A small section of music in a larger piece.
- A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
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“Bear in mind, Sir Henry, one of the phrases in that queer old legend which Dr.
“Yes, that the usual phrase; I am quite familiar with it.
“Yes, devotion; for that is, I believe, the phrase for hopeful ambition.”
“Yes, to you, my friend, who read them for the first time; but not for me, who have grown pale over them by many nights’ study, and have reconstructed every phrase, completed every thought.”
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