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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun locution has 1 sense
- locution(n = noun.communication) expression, saying - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression" has particulars: beatitude, logion, calque, calque formation, loan translation, advice and consent, ambiguity, euphemism, dysphemism, shucks, tongue twister, anatomical, anatomical reference, southernism, catchword, motto, shibboleth, slogan, axiom, maxim, epigram, quip, adage, byword, proverb, saw, idiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, phrase, set phrase, agrapha, sumpsimus
is a kind of language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication
CIDE DICTIONARY
locution, n. [L. locutio, fr. loqui to speak: cf. F. locution. ].
Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
"I hate these figures in locution,
These about phrases forced by ceremony." [1913 Webster]
These about phrases forced by ceremony." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
locution, n.
1 a word or phrase, esp. considered in regard to style or idiom.
2 style of speech.
1 a word or phrase, esp. considered in regard to style or idiom.
2 style of speech.
Etymology
ME f. OF locution or L locutio f. loqui locut- speak
THESAURUS
locution
adjectival phrase, antonym, articulation, choice of words, clause, composition, construction, dialect, diction, expression, formulation, free form, grammar, headed group, homograph, homonym, homophone, idiom, idiotism, language, langue, lexeme, lingo, lingua, linguistic act, linguistic form, logos, manner of speaking, metonym, minimum free form, monosyllable, noun phrase, paragraph, parlance, parol, parole, peculiar expression, period, personal usage, phonation, phrasal idiom, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, polysyllable, rhetoric, sentence, sequence of phonemes, set phrase, speaking, speech, speech act, standard phrase, string, syllable, synonym, syntactic structure, talk, term, the spoken word, tongue, turn of expression, turn of phrase, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, utterance, utterance string, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, verbiage, verbum, vocable, voice, way of speaking, word, word of mouth, word-group, wordage, wordingROGET THESAURUS
locution
Speech
N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.
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