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locution::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | expression, saying |
| Type of | speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, oral communication, voice communication |
| Has types | beatitude, byword, calque, calque formation, catchword, dysphemism, epigram, euphemism, idiom, idiomatic expression, loan translation, logion, adage, motto, phrasal idiom, phrase, proverb, quip, saw, set phrase, shibboleth, shucks, slogan, southernism, sumpsimus, tongue twister, maxim, advice and consent, agrapha, ambiguity, anatomical, anatomical reference, axiom |
Examples of locution
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In the locker rooms and bleachers he collected the rhythms of American locution.
From the time.com
Some classics movies already penetrate my locution and affect my thoughts.
From the economist.com
It's a strange locution the old man uses, to have remember'd what was still happening.
From the guardian.co.uk
To perform an illocutionary act is to use a locution with a certain force.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Even so, the Anglophile locution sounded quite natural coming from Dean's thin Wasp lips.
From the time.com
A figure of speech is sometimes called a rhetorical figure or a locution.
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It's the result of good breeding and excellent locution.
From the forbes.com
It is an act performed in saying something, in contrast with a locution, the act of saying something.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And occasionally he comes up with a locution that is more accurate than anything a native speaker could manage.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Saying: a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression"
- A figure of speech is a use of a word that diverges from its normal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it such as a metaphor, simile, or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. ...
- (Locutions) An interior locution is a mystical concept used by various religions, including the Roman Catholic Church. In an interior locution a person reportedly receives a set of ideas, thoughts, or visions from an outside spiritual source. ...
- Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression
- (Locutionary) is defined with reference to the intentions of speakers while speaking. Locutionary acts are referring, predicating, negating and subordinating. A constative (see below) or locutionary act involves the utterance's proposition or its propositional content.
- Refers to the utterance of a statement.
- Notes a particular word phrase or expression considered from the point of view of style.
