- a manner or style of speech or expression; phraseology
- a short, colorful or forceful expression
- a connected series of movements in a formal dance
- Gram. a sequence of two or more words conveying a single thought or forming a distinct part of a sentence but not containing a subject and predicate
- Linguis. a group of words that functions as a syntactic unit
- Music a short, distinct part or passage, usually of two, four, or eight measures
Origin of phrase
Classical Latin phrasis, diction from Classical Greek from phrazein, to speaktransitive verb
intransitive verb
phrased, phras′ing- to express in a certain way, as by selecting particular words to make a phrase
- Music to mark off or divide (notes) into phrases
