periphrasis
Meaning of periphrasis
noun
- The use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "I am going to" instead of "I will".
- Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather than morphological marking.
Language learners sometimes use periphrases like "did go" where a native speaker would use "went".
- The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a species of circumlocution).
- The use of a proper name as a shorthand to stand for qualities associated with it.
Information about periphrasis
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of periphrasis
pe-riphra-sis
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- periphrasis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
periphrasis synonyms
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Words that rhyme with periphrasis
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