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CHOICE OF WORDS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does choice of words mean?
• CHOICE OF WORDS (noun)
The noun CHOICE OF WORDS has 1 sense:
1. the manner in which something is expressed in words
Familiarity information: CHOICE OF WORDS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The manner in which something is expressed in words
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
choice of words; diction; phraseology; phrasing; verbiage; wording
Context example:
use concise military verbiage
Hypernyms ("choice of words" is a kind of...):
expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "choice of words"):
mot juste (the appropriate word or expression)
verbalisation; verbalization (the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization)
Context examples
“Allow me to inquire, Miss Trotwood,” interposed Miss Murdstone, “whom you are pleased to call, in a choice of words in which I am not experienced, my brother's instruments?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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