Words and phrases that have a meaning related to locution: (148 results)
Often used in the same context:
adjective, phrase, split infinitive, monosyllable, journalese, neologism, malapropism, circumlocutions, epigram, simile, archaisms, ineloquent, coinages, panegyric, aphorism, abstract noun, antonym, etymologies, phraseology, tautologies, participle, prepositional phrase, birdbrain, past participle, pronoun, chiasmus, ungrammatically, misquotation, buncombe, incuriosity, idiom, intransitive verb, prolixity, misunderestimate, truthy, sophistries, epithet, gerund, metonymy, subjunctive, trope, ironist, verb, genitive, idiomatic expression, subjunctive mood, sayer, dissembler, diphthong, noun, pronounciation, hegelian dialectic, sophist, excursus, peroration, syllogism, speciousness, descriptive adjective, grammarian, repugnantly, rhetorician, insubstantiality, colloquialism, platitude, imprecation, utterance, synonym, declarative sentence, misplaced modifier, bureaucratese, cognomen, mot juste, peccadillo, jackanapes, homophones, taciturnity, flatterer, transitive verb, jabberwocky, sophism, asperity, inoffensiveness, controversialist, churl, non sequitur, negritude, loquacity, paraphrase, declension, nabokovian, moralist, weltanschauung, delphic, attitudinizing, scrivener, solecism, pedantry, dunderhead, explications, succinctness, witticism, locutions, wording, abbreviation, appellation, spelling, designation, mode, spellings, terminology, nomenclature, form, collocation, euphemism, modus, pronunciation, designations, language, name
More specific:
adage, agrapha, ambiguity, anatomical, anatomical reference, axiom, beatitude, byword, calque, catchword, loan translation, maxim, motto, phrasal idiom, proverb, quip, saw, set phrase, shibboleth, shucks, slogan, southernism, tongue twister
Appears in the definition of:
southernism
More general:
oral communication, speech, spoken language
Synonyms:
Also try:expression, saying
— Adjectives for locution: common, such, same, odd, deadly, particular, familiar, popular, original, english, similar, more...
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