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Meaning of "paraphrast" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PARAPHRAST

paraphrast  [ˈpærəˌfræst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARAPHRAST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Paraphrast is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARAPHRAST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of paraphrast in the English dictionary

The definition of paraphrast in the dictionary is a person who paraphrases, a paraphraser.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARAPHRAST


bast
bæst
bioplast
ˈbaɪəʊˌplæst
bombast
ˈbɒmbæst
chloroplast
ˈklɔːrəʊˌplæst
cineaste
ˈsɪnɪˌæst
enthusiast
ɪnˈθjuːzɪˌæst
fantast
ˈfæntæst
fibroblast
ˈfaɪbrəʊˌblæst
gassed
ɡæst
gymnast
ˈdʒɪmnæst
hast
hæst
massed
mæst
metaphrast
ˈmɛtəˌfræst
osteoblast
ˈɒstɪəʊˌblæst
osteoclast
ˈɒstɪəʊˌklæst
paederast
ˈpɛdəˌræst
pederast
ˈpɛdəˌræst
protoplast
ˈprəʊtəˌplæst
scholiast
ˈskəʊlɪˌæst
trophoblast
ˈtrɒfəˌblæst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARAPHRAST

paraph
paraphasia
paraphasic
paraphernalia
paraphilia
paraphiliac
paraphimoses
paraphimosis
paraphonia
paraphonic
paraphrasable
paraphrase
paraphraser
paraphrastic
paraphrastical
paraphrenia
paraphysate
paraphyses
paraphysis
paraplanner

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARAPHRAST

at least
at the least
breakfast
cast
coast
colour contrast
contrast
deep in the past
east
fast
feast
forecast
in the least
last
least
Middle East
past
the Far East
the last
the past

Synonyms and antonyms of paraphrast in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «paraphrast» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARAPHRAST

Find out the translation of paraphrast to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of paraphrast from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «paraphrast» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

paraphrast
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paraphrast
570 millions of speakers

English

paraphrast
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

paraphrast
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

paraphrast
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

paraphrast
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

paraphrast
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

paraphrast
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paraphraste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paraphrast
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

paraphrast
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

paraphrast
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

paraphrast
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paraphrast
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

paraphrast
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

paraphrast
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परिफार्ग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

paraphrast
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

paraphrast
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paraphrast
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

paraphrast
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

paraphrast
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

paraphrast
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

paraphrast
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

paraphrast
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

paraphrast
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of paraphrast

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARAPHRAST»

The term «paraphrast» is normally little used and occupies the 133.355 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARAPHRAST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «paraphrast» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «paraphrast» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about paraphrast

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARAPHRAST»

Discover the use of paraphrast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to paraphrast and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Faith in the Language: Reformation Biblical Translation and ...
The paraphrast assumes that historical usage complicates interpretation and thus that the very words of the original impede the conveyance of meaning for all but the expert. Through adaptation and amplification of the verbal surface (Udall's ...
Jamie Harmon Ferguson, 2007
2
Psalms in the Early Modern World
The paraphrast meanwhile is expected to accommodate his author's words to a new time and circumstance, whether or not he is also accommodating those words to another language. The paraphrast assumes that historical usage ...
Ms Kari Boyd McBride, Mr David L Orvis, Assoc Prof Linda Austern, 2013
3
The Gentleman's Magazine
It is to be feared, notwithstanding the utmost endeavours of the paraphrast to keep up with the author, that the reader will not find the sublimity of the original work in this new version ; and, as Milton's sublimity is his principal characteristic, the ...
‎1847
4
Caesar's commentaries on the Gallic war, and the first book ...
X. Caesar's speeches are in the third person, the paraphrast's in the first, which gives a more rhetorical air to what is spoken. l. lliius piv rd: tum x. r. h. We have nothing in the paraphrase corresponding to the View ad quadringentoa of the Latin ...
Julius Caesar, Charles Anthon, 1868
5
Holy Scripture Speaks: The Production and Reception of ...
When he comments on his task as a paraphrast of the Gospels, Erasmus takes up some additional considerations. In the dedication to his first Gospel paraphrase, the one on Matthew (published in March 1522), he observes that paraphrasing ...
Hilmar M. Pabel, Mark Vessey, 2002
6
An Introduction to the Criticism of the Old Testament, and ...
Provided the integrity of his author'; sense be observed, the paraphrast is at liberty to abridge what is narrated at length, to enlarge on what is written with brevity, to supply supposed omissions, to fill up chasms, to illustrate obscure and  ...
Thomas Hartwell HORNE, John AYRE (Minister of St. John's Chapel, Hampstead.), 1860
7
The Truth of the Christian Religion: In Six Books ...
Now (e) many of the Hebrews have this Tradition, that that Divine Power which they call I/Vzsdom, should dwell in the Messiah, (a') whence the Chaldee Paraphrast " Presence shall go before, that is, the Angel of the Cove. " nant whom ye ...
Hugo Grotius, Jean Le Clerc, 1777
8
Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith
She names neither Locke nor his book, but it is certain that he is the "learned paraphrast" to whom she refers (SRM 12, 20).67 The certainty lies not only in her use of that term, but also in her noting the two contrasting claims that Locke makes: ...
Michal Michelson, Mr William Kolbrener, 2013
9
Speusippus of Athens: A Critical Study With a Collection of ...
It is therefore necessary to determine the meaning of his description of the Mandrobulus as a nXocTcovixoc; SioXoyo?. Bywater maintains that the paraphrast took the Mandrobulus to be a dialogue of Plato's, as is shown by the way he refers to ...
Leonardo Tarán, 1981
10
English Metrical Psalms: Poetry as Praise and Prayer, 1535-1601
Harington saw himself as a kind of paraphrast or poet-interpreter, and when answering his critics denied that it was his duty to 'observe' Ariosto's 'phrase so strictly' as a scholarly 'interpreter'103 or fidus interpres. Such imitators as Chaucer, ...
Rivkah Zim, 2011

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Paraphrast [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/paraphrast>. May 2024 ».
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