See turn of phrase in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for turn of phrase meaning in English (5.8kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "trope"
},
"expansion": "trope",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare trope, with same sense of “turn” to mean indirect language.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "turns of phrase",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~",
"2": "turns of phrase"
},
"expansion": "turn of phrase (countable and uncountable, plural turns of phrase)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "59 41",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "70 30",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Figures of speech",
"orig": "en:Figures of speech",
"parents": [
"Rhetoric",
"Language",
"Communication",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1922, Dorothy Canfield, “Chapter 43”, in Rough-Hewn",
"text": "\"I should call it a most nice sort of surprise,\" remarked the girl with a quaintly un-English turn of phrase which he had already noticed and thought the most delightful thing in the world.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An expression which is worded in a distinctive way, especially one which is particularly memorable or artful."
],
"id": "en-turn_of_phrase-en-noun-gftFtC6d",
"links": [
[
"expression",
"expression"
],
[
"distinctive",
"distinctive"
],
[
"memorable",
"memorable"
],
[
"artful",
"artful"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) An expression which is worded in a distinctive way, especially one which is particularly memorable or artful."
],
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "68 32",
"word": "turn a phrase"
},
{
"_dis1": "68 32",
"word": "figure of speech"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gir"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "sanakäänne"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "lausekäänne"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "lauseparsi"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tournure de phrase"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tour de phrase"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Redewendung"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "szófordulat"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "fordulat"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "szóhasználat"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "beszédfordulat"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "kifejezésmód"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "kifejezés"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "szólásmód"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "szólás"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "giro di parole"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "modo di dire"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "proprietà di linguaggio"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "modo di esprimersi"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zwrot"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 22",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oborót réči",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "оборо́т ре́чи"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with collocations",
"parents": [
"Terms with collocations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "This author has a beautiful turn of phrase.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A distinctive way of wording things, a distinctive way of writing or speaking."
],
"id": "en-turn_of_phrase-en-noun-Pz3x6LVO",
"links": [
[
"wording",
"wording"
],
[
"writing",
"writing"
],
[
"speaking",
"speaking"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) A distinctive way of wording things, a distinctive way of writing or speaking."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "style"
},
{
"word": "prose"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-turn of phrase.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/71/En-au-turn_of_phrase.ogg/En-au-turn_of_phrase.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/En-au-turn_of_phrase.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "turn of phrase"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"en:Figures of speech"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "trope"
},
"expansion": "trope",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare trope, with same sense of “turn” to mean indirect language.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "turns of phrase",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~",
"2": "turns of phrase"
},
"expansion": "turn of phrase (countable and uncountable, plural turns of phrase)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "turn a phrase"
},
{
"word": "figure of speech"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1922, Dorothy Canfield, “Chapter 43”, in Rough-Hewn",
"text": "\"I should call it a most nice sort of surprise,\" remarked the girl with a quaintly un-English turn of phrase which he had already noticed and thought the most delightful thing in the world.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An expression which is worded in a distinctive way, especially one which is particularly memorable or artful."
],
"links": [
[
"expression",
"expression"
],
[
"distinctive",
"distinctive"
],
[
"memorable",
"memorable"
],
[
"artful",
"artful"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) An expression which is worded in a distinctive way, especially one which is particularly memorable or artful."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with collocations",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "This author has a beautiful turn of phrase.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A distinctive way of wording things, a distinctive way of writing or speaking."
],
"links": [
[
"wording",
"wording"
],
[
"writing",
"writing"
],
[
"speaking",
"speaking"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) A distinctive way of wording things, a distinctive way of writing or speaking."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "style"
},
{
"word": "prose"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-turn of phrase.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/71/En-au-turn_of_phrase.ogg/En-au-turn_of_phrase.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/En-au-turn_of_phrase.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "sanakäänne"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "lausekäänne"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "lauseparsi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tournure de phrase"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tour de phrase"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Redewendung"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "szófordulat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "fordulat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "szóhasználat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "beszédfordulat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "kifejezésmód"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "kifejezés"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "szólásmód"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "szólás"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "giro di parole"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "modo di dire"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "proprietà di linguaggio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "modo di esprimersi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zwrot"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oborót réči",
"sense": "expression which is worded in a distinctive way",
"word": "оборо́т ре́чи"
}
],
"word": "turn of phrase"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.