Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Choice and use of words, especially with regard to effective communication.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The effectiveness and degree of clarity of word choice and expression.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Enunciation, pronunciation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the manner in which something is expressed in words- G.S.Patton
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wording, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: formulation, expression
Narrower terms: mot juste, verbalization, verbalisation
noun
the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: enunciation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: articulation
Narrower terms: mumbling
History
From late Middle English diccion (“something said; a word or phrase”) (an obsolete sense in Modern English), borrowed directly from Latin dictiō (“a saying, speaking, uttering”) or from Old French dicïon (“word”) (Anglo-Norman dictyoun), from Late Latin dictiō (“word”), both from dīcō (“to say, to talk”) + -tiō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, to point out”). The modern senses of “choice and use of words” and “clarity of word choice” were likely influenced by additional senses of dictiō.
Across languages
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
