locution
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9.4
- noun
- /ləˈkjuːʃən/
:
locución
- In her speech, she used a locution that was familiar to everyone in the audience.
- causal locutions
But they're different locutions, we could say, so let's not mix them up completely.
- But they're different locutions, we could say, so let's not mix them up completely.
- And each of those locutions suggests a strategy for trying to solve this problem.
- And then he brings in this locution pair say notum.
- And not only that saying it is, they call it anti locution.
Examples
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Presently, this guilty knowledge is spelled out by a series of 'as if' locutions.
Academic text (1992) -
However, there is a way to express the basic question of this article without causal or explanatory locutions.
Academic text (2013) -
Indeed, it is hard to see how one would otherwise make sense of the locution "a law that is not just."
Academic text (2008) -
The belief that you do not change does not require us to abandon this locution.
Academic text (2009) -
And probably the locution is simply a sign of nervousness.
Fiction book (1999) -
And each of those locutions suggests a strategy for trying to solve this problem.
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"I object to that locution," he said, and he pulled his wool shirt tighter around him.
Fiction book (2000) -
If we were to know only the "human" King, to borrow Garrow's locution, we would misunderstand King.
Academic text (2003) -
I don't know whether I was more surprised by the sentiment or by the '60s locution.
Academic text (2011) -
Self-consciousness is comically absent from the locutions of the characters in Six Problems.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
∞
4.1
A word or phrase with a clear meaning in a subject
201
1.7
A short well-known phrase that gives advice or a general truth
187
4.1
A word or phrase used by people in a certain situation with a special meaning
57
3.4
The way words are used to express an idea
31
3.8
The words someone uses to express an idea or feeling
Surface Forms
Morphology
locution = locut + ion
The stem 'locut-' is a learned combining form not a productive standalone English word, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning of 'locution' from its parts.
Etymology
Locution comes from the Latin root loqu- meaning 'to speak', the same root you see in eloquent. So a locution is a particular word or phrase that people use in a certain place or group.