Phrase

Phrase

In everyday speech, a phrase may refer to any group of words. In linguistics, a phrase is a group of words (or sometimes a single word) that form a constituent and so function as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. A phrase is lower on the grammatical hierarchy than a clause.

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    ““Poor but happy” is not a phrase invented by a poor person.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.”
    —Josiah Royce (1855–1916)

    “And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)