Thursday, July 2, 2015

Word of the Day

holophrase
\HOL-uh-freyz, HOH-luh-\

noun
1. a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!

Quotes
Addressed by a man of college age, Kellett could not so much as mumble the holophrase “Help!” in response, still less reply in declarative utterances.
-- Dennis Ford, Red Star, 2007

Origin
Holophrase came to English in the late 1800s from the Greek roots holos meaning "whole, entire" and phrásis meaning "diction, style, speech."

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