Word Meanings - CONVERSATIONISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.

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• PHRASEOLOGIST
  A collector or coiner of phrases.
• PHRASELESS
  Indescribable. Shak.
• CONVERSATIONIST
  One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.
• CONVERSATION
  conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a 1. General course of conduct; behavior. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27. 2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close
• CONVERSATIONISM
  A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.
• CONVERSATIONAL
  Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.
• CONVERSATIONALIST
  A conversationist.
• CONVERSATIONED
  Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved. Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl.
• PHRASEOGRAM
  A symbol for a phrase.
• PHRASEOLOGY
  1. Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style. Most completely national in his . . . phraseology. I. Taylor. 2. A collection of phrases; a phrase book. Syn. -- Diction; style. See Diction.
• PHRASE
  A short clause or portion of a period. Note: A composition consists first of sentences, or periods; these are subdivided into sections, and these into phrases. Phrase book, a book of idiomatic phrases. J. S. Blackie. (more info) 1. A
• PHRASEOLOGIC; PHRASEOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words. "This verbal or phraseological answer." Bp. Pearson.
• PERIPHRASE
  The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. "To describe by enigmatic periphrases." De Quincey.
• METAPHRASE
  paraphrase; meta` beyond, over + fra`zein to speak: cf. F. 1. A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden. 2. An answering phrase; repartee. Mrs. Browning.
• PARAPHRASER
  One who paraphrases.
• METAPHRASED
  Translated literally.
• PARAPHRASE
  A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation