phrase

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈfɹweɪ̯z]
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈfɹɛjz/
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• British, Southern, Standard: [ˈfɹwɛjz]
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈfɹæɪ̯z/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: [ˈfɹwæ̝ɪ̯z]
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• Scotland: /ˈfɾez/
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• Scotland: [ˈfɾeːz]
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• rhymes with -eɪz
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• homophone: fraise
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• homophone: frays
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• CMU ARPABET: F R EY1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “to tell, express”).

263 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: 'n frase — short written or spoken expression
• Afrikaans: frase — short written or spoken expression
• Albanian: frazë — short written or spoken expression
• Albanian: thënie — short written or spoken expression
• Amharic: ሐረግ (ḥäräg) — short written or spoken expression
• Arabic: جُمْلَة (jumla) — short written or spoken expression
• Arabic: تَعْبِير (taʕbīr) — short written or spoken expression
• Arabic: عِبَارَة (ʕibāra) — short written or spoken expression
• Arabic: تَعْبِير (taʕbīr) — short written or spoken expression
• Armenian: արտահայտություն (artahaytutʻyun) — short written or spoken expression
• Azerbaijani: ifadə — short written or spoken expression
• Azerbaijani: ibarə — short written or spoken expression
• Azerbaijani: fraza — short written or spoken expression
• Belarusian: фра́за (fráza) — short written or spoken expression
• Belarusian: высло́ўе (vyslówje) — short written or spoken expression
• Bengali: বাক্য (bakko) — short written or spoken expression
• Bengali: ফ্রেজ (phrej) — short written or spoken expression
• Bulgarian: фра́за (fráza) — short written or spoken expression
• Bulgarian: и́зраз (ízraz) — short written or spoken expression
• Burmese: နိဒ္ဒေသ (niddesa.) — short written or spoken expression
• Chechen: алар (alar) — short written or spoken expression
• Chinese Cantonese: 片語 /片语 (pin3 jyu5) — short written or spoken expression
• Chinese: 片語 /片语 (phiàn-gí) — short written or spoken expression
• Chinese Mandarin: 短語 /短语 (duǎnyǔ) — short written or spoken expression
• Chinese Mandarin: 片語 /片语 (piànyǔ) — short written or spoken expression
• Chinese Mandarin: 詞組 /词组 (cízǔ) — short written or spoken expression
• Wu Chinese: 片語 /片语 (5phi-gniu) — short written or spoken expression
• Czech: fráze — short written or spoken expression
• Danish: frase — short written or spoken expression
• Danish: udtryk — short written or spoken expression
• Dutch: uitspraak — short written or spoken expression
• Esperanto: frazo — short written or spoken expression
• Estonian: fraas — short written or spoken expression
• Estonian: väljend — short written or spoken expression
• Finnish: ilmaus — short written or spoken expression
• French: expression — short written or spoken expression
• Galician: frase — short written or spoken expression
• Georgian: ფრაზა (praza) — short written or spoken expression
• German: Redewendung — short written or spoken expression
• German: Phrase — short written or spoken expression
• Greek: φράση (frási) — short written or spoken expression
• Hebrew: צֵרוּף לָשׁוֹן (tserúf lashón) — short written or spoken expression
• Hebrew: מִשְׁפָּט (mishpát) — short written or spoken expression
• Hindi: मुहावरा (muhāvrā) — short written or spoken expression
• Hindi: वाक्यांश (vākyāñś) — short written or spoken expression
• Hindi: वाक्य (vākya) — short written or spoken expression
• Hindi: जुमला (jumlā) — short written or spoken expression
• Hindi: इबारत (ibārat) — short written or spoken expression
• Hungarian: mondás — short written or spoken expression
• Hungarian: kifejezés — short written or spoken expression
• Icelandic: frasi — short written or spoken expression
• Icelandic: málsháttur — short written or spoken expression
• Indonesian: ungkapan — short written or spoken expression
• Indonesian: frasa — short written or spoken expression
• Interlingua: expression — short written or spoken expression
• Irish: frása — short written or spoken expression
• Italian: espressione — short written or spoken expression
• Italian: polirematica — short written or spoken expression
• Japanese: 句 (ku) — short written or spoken expression
• Japanese: 語句 (goku) — short written or spoken expression
• Japanese: フレーズ (furēzu) — short written or spoken expression
• Kazakh: фраза (fraza) — short written or spoken expression
• Kazakh: сөйлем (söilem) — short written or spoken expression
• Kazakh: сөйлемше (söilemşe) — short written or spoken expression
• Khmer: ឃ្លា (khliə) — short written or spoken expression
• Korean: 어구 (eogu) — short written or spoken expression
• Korean: 구 (gu) — short written or spoken expression
• Kyrgyz: фраза (fraza) — short written or spoken expression
• Kyrgyz: сүйлөм (süylöm) — short written or spoken expression
• Lao: ປໂຍກ (pa nyōk) — short written or spoken expression
• Lao: ວະລີ (wa lī) — short written or spoken expression
• Latvian: frāze — short written or spoken expression
• Lithuanian: žodžių junginys — short written or spoken expression
• Lithuanian: frazė — short written or spoken expression
• Macedonian: фраза (fraza) — short written or spoken expression
• Macedonian: израз (izraz) — short written or spoken expression
• Malay: ungkapan — short written or spoken expression
• Malay: frasa — short written or spoken expression
• Māori: kīanga — short written or spoken expression
• Māori: rerenga kupu — short written or spoken expression
• Mongolian: хэлц (xelc) — short written or spoken expression
• Norwegian Bokmål: frase — short written or spoken expression
• Norwegian Nynorsk: frase — short written or spoken expression
• Pashto: عبارت ('ebārat) — short written or spoken expression
• Iranian Persian: عِبارَت (ebârat) — short written or spoken expression
• Iranian Persian: جُمْلِه (jomle) — short written or spoken expression
• Iranian Persian: گُروه (goruh) — short written or spoken expression
• Iranian Persian: گُروه واژِه (goruh vâže) — short written or spoken expression
• Polish: zdanie — short written or spoken expression
• Polish: fraza — short written or spoken expression
• Polish: wyrażenie — short written or spoken expression
• Portuguese: expressão — short written or spoken expression
• Portuguese: frase — short written or spoken expression
• Romanian: expresie — short written or spoken expression
• Romanian: frază — short written or spoken expression
• Russian: фра́за (fráza) — short written or spoken expression
• Russian: выраже́ние (vyražénije) — short written or spoken expression
• Scottish Gaelic: abairt — short written or spoken expression
• Serbo-Croatian: фра́за — short written or spoken expression
• Serbo-Croatian: fráza — short written or spoken expression
• Slovak: fráza — short written or spoken expression
• Slovak: zvrat — short written or spoken expression
• Slovene: fraza — short written or spoken expression
• Spanish: frase — short written or spoken expression
• Swedish: fras — short written or spoken expression
• Swedish: uttryck — short written or spoken expression
• Tagalog: parirala — short written or spoken expression
• Tajik: ибора (ibora) — short written or spoken expression
• Tajik: ҷумла (jumla) — short written or spoken expression
• Tatar: гыйбарә (ğıybarä) — short written or spoken expression
• Tatar: сүзтезмә (süztezmä) — short written or spoken expression
• Thai: วลี (wá-lii) — short written or spoken expression
• Thai: ประโยค (bprà-yòok) — short written or spoken expression
• Tok Pisin: toktok — short written or spoken expression
• Turkish: deyim — short written or spoken expression
• Turkish: tabir — short written or spoken expression
• Turkish: ifade — short written or spoken expression
• Turkmen: jümle — short written or spoken expression
• Turkmen: fraza — short written or spoken expression
• Ukrainian: фра́за (fráza) — short written or spoken expression
• Ukrainian: ви́слів (výsliv) — short written or spoken expression
• Ukrainian: ре́чення (réčennja) — short written or spoken expression
• Urdu: جُمْلَہ (jumla) — short written or spoken expression
• Urdu: عِبارَت ('ibārat) — short written or spoken expression
• Uyghur: ئىبارەت (ibaret) — short written or spoken expression
• Uzbek: ibora — short written or spoken expression
• Uzbek: fraza — short written or spoken expression
• Uzbek: gap — short written or spoken expression
• Vietnamese: cụm từ — short written or spoken expression
• Vietnamese: câu — short written or spoken expression
• Volapük: fraseod — short written or spoken expression
• Walloon: ratourneure — short written or spoken expression
• Welsh: ymadrodd — short written or spoken expression
• Yiddish: פֿראַזע (fraze) — short written or spoken expression
• Albanian: frazë — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Albanian: shprehje — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Albanian: togfjalësh — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Armenian: բառակապակցություն (baṙakapakcʻutʻyun) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Azerbaijani: ibarə — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Azerbaijani: söz birləşməsi — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Belarusian: словазлучэ́нне (slovazlučénnje) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Belarusian: словазлучэ́ньне (slovazlučénʹnje) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Belarusian: фра́за (fráza) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Bulgarian: фра́за (fráza) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Catalan: sintagma — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Czech: slovní spojení — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Czech: sousloví — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Dutch: frase — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Esperanto: lokucio — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Estonian: fraas — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Finnish: lauseke — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Finnish: fraasi — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• French: locution — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• French: syntagme — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• German: Phrase — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Greek: φράση (frási) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Hungarian: szókapcsolat — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Hungarian: szószerkezet — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Hungarian: csoport or szerkezet — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Indonesian: frasa — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Irish: frása — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Irish: abairtín — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Italian: locuzione — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Italian: polirematica — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Italian: frase — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Japanese: 句 (ku) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Korean: 구 (gu) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Lithuanian: žodžių junginys — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Lithuanian: frazė — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Norwegian Bokmål: frase — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Norwegian Nynorsk: frase — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Iranian Persian: گُروه واژِه (goruh vâže) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Polish: wypowiedzenie — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Polish: fraza — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Portuguese: locução — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Portuguese: sintagma — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Kalo Finnish Romani: laavengo knippos — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Romanian: frază — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Romanian: expresie — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Romanian: sintagmă — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Romansh: frasa — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Russian: словосочета́ние (slovosočetánije) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Russian: оборо́т ре́чи (oborót réči) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Russian: фра́за (fráza) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Northern Sami: gihppu — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Scottish Gaelic: abairt — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Slovene: stavek — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Spanish: frase — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Swedish: fras — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Swedish: uttryck — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Tagalog: parirala — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Thai: วลี (wá-lii) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Turkish: öbek — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Ukrainian: словосполу́чення (slovospolúčennja) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Ukrainian: фра́за (fráza) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Vietnamese: cụm từ — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Walloon: fråze — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Welsh: priod-ddull — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Yiddish: פֿראַזע (fraze) — grammar: group of two or more words that express an idea but do not form a complete sentence
• Belarusian: фра́за (fráza) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Bulgarian: фра́за (fráza) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Catalan: frase — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Chinese Mandarin: 樂句 /乐句 (yuèjù) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Finnish: fraasi — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Finnish: lauseke — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• French: phrase — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• German: Phrase — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Greek: φράση (frási) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Hungarian: frázis — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Italian: frase — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Japanese: 楽句 (gakku) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Japanese: フレーズ (furēzu) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Korean: 악구 (akgu) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Korean: 프레이즈 (peureijeu) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Macedonian: фраза (fraza) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Norwegian Bokmål: frase — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Norwegian Nynorsk: frase — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Polish: fraza — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Portuguese: frase — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Romansh: frasa — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Russian: фра́за (fráza) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Spanish: frase — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Swedish: fras — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Ukrainian: фра́за (fráza) — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Welsh: brawddeg — music: small section of music in a larger piece
• Bulgarian: фрази́рам (frazíram) — music: perform a passage with the correct phrasing
• Finnish: fraseerata — music: perform a passage with the correct phrasing
• Russian: фрази́ровать (frazírovatʹ) — music: perform a passage with the correct phrasing
• Swedish: frasera — music: perform a passage with the correct phrasing
• Bulgarian: изразя́вам (izrazjávam) — express by means of words
• Bulgarian: изразя́ (izrazjá) — express by means of words
• Chinese Mandarin: 表述 (biǎoshù) — express by means of words
• Finnish: ilmaista — express by means of words
• Finnish: pukea sanoiksi — express by means of words
• French: exprimer — express by means of words
• French: formuler — express by means of words
• German: formulieren — express by means of words
• Greek: φράζειν (frázein) — express by means of words
• Interlingua: exprimer — express by means of words
• Italian: esprimere — express by means of words
• Italian: redigere — express by means of words
• Macedonian: изразува (izrazuva) — express by means of words
• Portuguese: exprimir — express by means of words
• Portuguese: expressar — express by means of words
• Russian: формули́ровать (formulírovatʹ) — express by means of words
• Russian: сформули́ровать (sformulírovatʹ) — express by means of words
• Russian: выража́ть (vyražátʹ) — express by means of words
• Russian: вы́разить (výrazitʹ) — express by means of words
• Spanish: formular — express by means of words
• Spanish: expresar — express by means of words
• Spanish: frasear — express by means of words
• Swedish: benämna — express by means of words
• Swedish: beteckna — express by means of words
• Swedish: formulera — express by means of words
• Swedish: ge uttryck åt — express by means of words
• Swedish: uttrycka — express by means of words
• Turkish: anlatmak — express by means of words
• Turkish: ifade etmek — express by means of words
• Finnish: fraseerata — music: divide into melodic phrases
• French: phraser — music: divide into melodic phrases
• Macedonian: фрази́ра (frazíra) — music: divide into melodic phrases
• Russian: фрази́ровать (frazírovatʹ) — music: divide into melodic phrases
• Swedish: frasera — music: divide into melodic phrases