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Definition of Set phrase
1. Noun. An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up.
Generic synonyms: Expression, Locution, Saying
Specialized synonyms: Ruralism, Rusticism
Examples of language type: Out Of Whack, In The Lurch, Like Clockwork
Derivative terms: Idiomatic, Phrasal, Phrase
Definition of Set phrase
1. Noun. (grammar) A common expression whose wording is not subject to variation. ¹
2. Noun. (grammar) A common expression whose words cannot be replaced by synonymous words without compromising the meaning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Set Phrase
Literary usage of Set phrase
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"When the idiomatic set phrase deviates too considerably from the individual ...
On the other hand, the boundary between set phrase and syntactic expression ..."
2. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1907)
"(3) Trial statement in set phrase of the plaintiff's case, the denial in equally
set phrase of the defendant which came to be known as the ..."
3. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1917)
"... of two short syllables, and 2 where it precedes one).1 In 3 of these the
article stands with a proper name, and in 4 it is in a set phrase (tiri ri> ..."
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