(grammar) A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.
(music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
(archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.
“Admittedly, my phraseology was perhaps too colloquial and informal for my audience at the time.”
“So spare me your showy concern for sensitivity by using the appropriate phraseology.”
“The musical phraseology was convincing, and the crescendos and decrescendos were accurately measured and performed.”
phrasing
The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
(music) The way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others.
“And the pleasure of seeing herself as rebel and phrasemaker was no less keen than the pleasure of goodness.”
“We've tumbled far, have we not, from the era when Theodore C. Sorensen, who died in Manhattan on Sunday, set a standard for eloquence as John F. Kennedy's counselor and phrasemaker?”
“College football, beset by cheating scandals, had many powerful enemies but perhaps no one was a more fetching phrasemaker than Hutchins, who in 1929 became the university's fifth president.”
phrasebook
A book containing common phrases in two or more languages, used to learn a foreign language.
“The phrasebook, produced by the British Red Cross Society for hospitals in England, is translated into 36 languages including Punjabi, Japanese, Swahili and Welsh.”
“So much for greater cultural understanding when you're fumbling around with your Berlitz phrasebook while gesticulating wildly at your intended interlocutor.”
“Now two young Welshmen are aiming to write their own double act into world cricket's phrasebook.”
“Two supple phrasemakers in the wordshop of the dim Viennese study dotted with antiquities from around the world.”
“Kim's phrasemakers responded in kind, and Korea hands and editorialists the world over lamented that Bush had lost Korea through recklessness in a time of danger.”
“Billy Hughes, one of the great phrasemakers, gets a guernsey in nearly every section.”
“To the delight of nineteenth-century readers, phrasings were predictably grandiloquent.”
“By the time he suggests that the verse inclines towards the pentameter, it is clear that it has not occurred to him that the phrasings are of formal significance.”
“He's always been a cryptic songwriter, fond of oblique references and catchy off-the-wall phrasings, but here his metaphors and jests are haunted with regret and suspicion.”