Diction

['dɪkʃ(ə)n] or ['dɪkʃən]

Definition

(n.) Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Style, phraseology, language, expression, mode or manner of expression, turn of expression, form of expression.

Typist: Rex

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Style, expression, rhetoric, phraseology, language, grammar

ANT:Solecism, provincialism, mispronunciation

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Definition

n. a saying or speaking: manner of speaking or expressing: choice of words: style.

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