periphrasis
/pəˈrɪfrəsɪs/
词源链
- 英语English
periphrasis
词源说明
From Ancient Greek περίφρασις (períphrasis).
释义
名词noun
- 1The use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "I am going to" instead of "I will".
- 2(linguistics) Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather than morphological marking.
- 3(rhetoric) The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a type of