Phraseologist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Phraseologist is a noun meaning A writer or speaker who coins clever phrases; One who is eloquent.
Meaning
A writer or speaker who coins clever phrases; One who is eloquent.
More Meanings
- One who studies or collects phrases
- One who specializes in phraseological details of a field.
Example Sentences
A phraseologist like Sinatra overlays the metre with something like confiding speech.
At the other end there is the phraseologist's view that at least one member of the collocation has to be restricted (Howarth 1998b).
The phraseologist of that ominous question is a southern gentleman named Chanler, who was at one time "convicted" in New York of being out of his in wits and incarcerated an insane asylum .
The author of Poetæ Rusticantis literatum Otium is but a mere phraseologist, the philological publisher is but a translator; but I expected better usage from Mr. Abel Roper, who is an original.
Word Forms
- phraseologists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phrasemaker, coiner, phraseman, apothegmatist, apophthegmatist, collector.
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