1 (grammar) a group of words without a FINITE verb, especially one that forms part of a sentence. 'the green car' and 'on Friday morning' are phrases.
seealsoNOUNPHRASE
2 a group of words which have a particular meaning when used together:
a memorable / famous phrase * She was, in her own favourite phrase, 'a woman without a past'.
seealsoCATCHPHRASE
3 (music) a short series of notes that form a unit within a longer passage in a piece of music
IDIOMS see COINv., TURNn.
Part of speech: verb
1 [VN] ~ sth (as sth) to say or write sth in a particular way:
a carefully phrased remark * I agree with what he says, but I'd have phrased it differently. * Her order was phrased as a suggestion. * She phrased the explanation in very simple terms.
2 [V, VN] to divide a piece of music into small groups of notes; to play or sing these in a particular way, especially in an effective way
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for phrase is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is phrase a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, phrase is tagged as noun.
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