Usually means: Group of words expressing idea.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word PHRASE:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. phrase: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. phrase: Merriam-Webster
  3. phrase: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. phrase: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. phrase: Collins English Dictionary
  6. phrase: Vocabulary.com
  7. Phrase, phrase: Wordnik
  8. phrase: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. phrase: Wiktionary
  10. phrase: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. phrase: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. phrase: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. phrase: Dictionary.com
  14. phrase: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. phrase: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Phrase (disambiguation), Phrase (grammar), Phrase (linguistics), Phrase (music), Phrase (music theory), Phrase (rapper), Phrase (software), Phrase: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Phrase: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. phrase: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. phrase: Rhymezone
  20. phrase, phrase (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. phrase: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. phrase: FreeDictionary.org
  23. phrase: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. phrase: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  5. -phrase: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phrase: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phrase: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phrase: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agate Lexicon (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Phrase, phrase: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Phrase: Sports Definitions

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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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