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Noun locution has 1 sense
- saying, expression, locution - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression"
--1 is a kind of speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication
--1 has particulars: | | Beatitude; logion; calque, loan translation; advice and consent; ambiguity; euphemism; dysphemism; shucks; tongue twister; anatomical reference, anatomical; southernism; motto, slogan, catchword, shibboleth; maxim, axiom; epigram, quip; proverb, adage, saw, byword; idiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase, phrase; agrapha; sumpsimus |
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