Borrowed fromLatinlocūtiō, locūtiōnem(“speech”), fromloquor(“speak”). Compare theFrench cognatelocution.
locution (countable anduncountable,plurallocutions)
- Aphrase orexpressionpeculiar to orcharacteristic of a given person or group of people.
The television show host is widely recognized for his all-too-commonlocutions.
1996, David Foster Wallace,Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.:Little, Brown and Company,→ISBN:Another way fathers impact sons is that sons, once their voices have changed in puberty, invariably answer the telephone with the samelocutions and intonations of their fathers.
- The use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way.
1992, Judith Jarvis Thomson,The Realm of Rights, page299:So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses thelocution "I promise".
- Style of discourse or usage, or any particularutterance in such style.
informallocutions
- (religion) Asupernaturalrevelation where areligiousfigure,statue oricon speaks, usually to asaint.
phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals
use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way
- “locution”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “locution”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “locution”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
Borrowed fromLatinlocūtiōnem(“speech”), fromloqui(“speak”).
locution f (plurallocutions)
- phrase,locution
- (linguistics)locution(a group of words with the grammatical value of a single word)[1]
