English > formulation: 3 senses > noun 3, communication| Meaning | The style of expressing yourself. |
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| Example | "he suggested a better formulation" |
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| Synonym | expression |
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| Narrower | Americanism | An expression / expression that is characteristic of English as spoken by Americans |
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| Anglicism, Briticism, Britishism | An expression / expression that is used in Great Britain (especially as contrasted with American English) |
| archaism, archaicism | The use of an archaic expression |
| boilerplate | standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories |
| colloquialism | A colloquial expression |
| honorific | An expression of respect |
| parlance, idiom | A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language |
| sentimentalism | The excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form |
| wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage | The manner in which something is expressed in words |
| Broader | expressive style, style | A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
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| Spanish | expresión |
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| Catalan | expressió |
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| Verbs | formulate | put into words or an expression |
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