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Meaning of "periphrase" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PERIPHRASE

periphrase  [ˈpɛrɪˌfreɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERIPHRASE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Periphrase 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 PERIPHRASE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Periphrasis

In linguistics, periphrasis is a device by which grammatical meaning is expressed by one or more free morphemes, instead of by inflectional affixes or derivation. Periphrastic forms are analytic, whereas the absence of periphrasis is a characteristic of synthesis. While periphrasis concerns all categories of syntax, it is most visible with verb catenae. The verb catenae of English are highly periphrastic.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERIPHRASE


appraise
əˈpreɪz
craze
kreɪz
erase
ɪˈreɪz
fraise
freɪz
fundraise
ˈfʌndˌreɪz
graze
ɡreɪz
holophrase
ˈhɒləˌfreɪz
metaphrase
ˈmɛtəˌfreɪz
misphrase
ˌmɪsˈfreɪz
mores
ˈmɔːreɪz
paraphrase
ˈpærəˌfreɪz
phrase
freɪz
polymerase
pəˈlɪməreɪz
praise
preɪz
prase
preɪz
raise
reɪz
rase
reɪz
raze
reɪz
rephrase
riːˈfreɪz
strays
streɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERIPHRASE

peripheral
peripheral device
peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour
peripheral unit
peripheral vision
peripherality
peripherally
peripheric
peripherical
peripheries
periphery
periphonic
periphrases
periphrasis
periphrastic
periphrastical
periphrastically
periphytic
periphyton
periplasm

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERIPHRASE

acetylcholinesterase
anhydrase
buzz phrase
carbonic anhydrase
catch phrase
chrysoprase
epimerase
esterase
gyrase
isomerase
luciferase
noun phrase
parrot phrase
prepositional phrase
telomerase
to coin a phrase
topoisomerase
transferase
turn of phrase
verb phrase

Synonyms and antonyms of periphrase in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «periphrase» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERIPHRASE

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

Translator English - Chinese

periphrase
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

perífrasis
570 millions of speakers

English

periphrase
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

periphrase
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

periphrase
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

periphrase
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

periphrase
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

periphrase
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

périphrase
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Periphrase
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Periphrase
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

periphrase
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

periphrase
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Periphrase
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

periphrase
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

periphrase
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भपका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

periphrase
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

perifrasi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

periphrase
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

periphrase
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

periphrase
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

periphrase
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

periphrase
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

periphrase
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

periphrase
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of periphrase

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERIPHRASE»

The term «periphrase» is used very little and occupies the 179.284 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERIPHRASE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «periphrase» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «periphrase» 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 periphrase

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERIPHRASE»

Discover the use of periphrase in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to periphrase and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Japanese Conversation-grammar with Numerous Reading Lessons ...
Dialogue (continuation) . . d) The Stern and the Present, Past or Future of sura or itas'. e) Periphrase by means of ... and koto ga aru. h) Periphrase by means of the Present and koto ya dekiru or wake ni wa ikanai. i) Periphrase by means of no.
Hermann Plaut, 1905
2
The Prose Edda
Barrow-boar to the bale-fire Of Baldr, and leads the people. The boar is also called Fearful-Tusk. VIII. " How should one periphrase Heimdallr? By calling him Son of Nine Mothers, or Watchman of the Gods, as already has been written; ...
‎1916
3
Icelandic Sagas, Vol. III: The Orkneyingers Saga
"That teazes seahorses" that wearies hisship byfast sailing. 3. "Wolf's wine," a periphrase for blood. 4. "Warclouds," a periphrase forshields. 5. "Hound of the pinewood,"a periphrase for fire. 6. "Stringrain," bowstring rain, a periphrase for arrows.
George W. Dasent, 2014
4
The Prose Edda:
[One may periphrase hair by calling it Forest, or by some treename; one may periphrase it in terms of the skull or brain orhead;and the beardin terms of chin orcheeks or throat.] LXX.The heart iscalled grainsheaf; [one should periphrase itby ...
Snorri Sturluson, 2014
5
Handbook of Word-Formation
The first of these is that of featural intersectiveness f : (F) If an analytic combination C has a featurally intersective distribution, then C is a periphrase. Criterion (F) entails that if the intersection of properties P and Q is always expressed by an ...
Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber, 2006
6
Semiotics and Pragmatics: An evaluative comparison of ...
(a) PARAPHRASE versus PERIPHRASE. A periphrase, in rhetorics, is a figure or a procedure which expresses a unique notion by a group of several words. It is thus a less 'natural' or less 'intuitive' activity than a paraphrase is. A periphrase ...
Herman Parret, 1983
7
A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin: Newly Revised for ...
The root of this term is periphrase and that's precisely what we have to do to translate the future active participle—we have to find a periphrase for it, some way of approximating the meaning it would have had for the Roman ear. We talk around ...
Dale A. Grote, 2000
8
The Arte of English Poesie
I would faine learne of some good maker, whether the Earle spake this in figure of Periphrase or not, for mine owne opinion I thinke that if he ment to describe the winter season, he would not haue disclosed it so broadly, as to say winter at the ...
George Puttenham, 1811
9
Verbal Periphrases in a Functional Grammar of Spanish
Contains a description of all the different types of verbal periphrases used in modern peninsular Spanish.
Hella Olbertz, 1998
10
The Works ¬of ¬Henry ¬Howard, ¬earl ¬of ¬Surrey ¬and ¬of ...
fain learn of some good maker, (poet) whether the noble Earl of Surrey spoke this in figure of periphrase, or not. For mine own opinion, I think that if he meant to describe the winter season, he would not have disclosed it so broadly, as to say ...
Henry Howard, Thomas Wyatt, George F. Nott, 1815

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Periphrase [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/periphrase>. Apr 2024 ».
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