Phrasemaker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Phrasemaker is a noun meaning A crafter of phrases; one who pens bombast or rhetoric.
Meaning
A crafter of phrases; one who pens bombast or rhetoric.
Example Sentences
As the entrepreneur Peter Thiel — whose politics I loathe, but who’s a good phrasemaker — put it, it was an era in which we wanted flying cars but got 140 characters instead.
But even as you read this, some sharp political phrasemaker is working on a paragraph that begins “Not in a hundred days, not in a hundred hours, but in a hundred New York minutes .
Word Forms
- phrasemakers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phraseologist, phraseman, bombaster, rhapsodizer, speechwright, worder.
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