Usually means: Groups of words with meaning.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word phrases:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. phrases: Merriam-Webster
  2. phrases: Collins English Dictionary
  3. phrases: Vocabulary.com
  4. Phrases, phrase's, phrases: Wordnik
  5. phrases: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. phrases: Wiktionary
  7. phrases: Dictionary.com
  8. phrases: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Phrases: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. phrases: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Phrases: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. phrases: Glossary of research economics
  2. phrases: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phrases: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phrases: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (phrase)

noun:  A short written or spoken expression.
noun:  (grammar) A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words.
noun:  (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
noun:  (archaic) A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.
noun:  (dance) A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
verb:  (transitive) To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, music) To perform (a passage) with a particular phrasing.
verb:  (transitive, music) To divide into melodic phrases.
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