phraseology
/fɹeɪziˈɑləd͡ʒi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I was riding through the forest, when suddenly (pray correct my phraseology if too worldly—you know I am not well read in these epics of the heart) I saw a knight and his lady traversing one of the glades; the golden sunshine fell athwart the green leaves, and showed their white steeds and whiter plumes, while the air around grew musical with their gentle words and laughter."
- "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 mystic allusions; and she now, more than ever, affected to veil her meaning under the mysterious phraseology so much adopted by the Jacobites."
- "Light is, therefore, only an attendant circumstance in the production of the photographic picture; and this seems proved by the fact of one body impressing its image upon another in the dark, when the bodies are approximated at what, in electrical phraseology, is called the striking distance."
- "Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: φράσις
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɹeɪziˈɑləd͡ʒi/
- British English: /fɹeɪziˈɒləd͡ʒɪ/