OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 38832

phraseology

/fɹeɪziˈɑləd͡ʒi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fraseología
Study of set or fixed expressions.
fraseología
A group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group.
Fortunately, two servants she had brought with her, were devotedly attached to their mistress; and the others only entering her apartments at rare intervals, did not understand her…
Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently.
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