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- noun, a group of words forming an immediate syntactic constituent of a clause. Compare clause, noun phrase, verb phrase
- noun, a particular expression, esp an original one
- noun, music a small group of notes forming a coherent unit of melody
- noun, (in choreography) a short sequence of dance movements
- verb, music to divide (a melodic line, part, etc) into musical phrases, esp in performance
- verb, to express orally or in a phrase
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| Synonyms: | expression, express, communicate, saying, remark, motto, construction, tag, quotation, maxim | And more... |
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