periphrasis Definition

circumlocution, periphrase, ambage, hyperbaton, rhetorical device, brachyology, figure of speech, subjunction, content word, euphemism, function word, brachylogy, parelcon, hypallage, noun phrase, paradiastole, tralation, major form class, verb phrase, hysteron proteron, polyseme, adnominal, gerundive, adnoun, illocution, metalepsis, epanadiplosis, expressive style, verbify, reflexive verb, aoristic, laconism, set phrase, common noun, hendiadys, nounize, phrase, metaphrase, colloquial, participle, verb, demonstrative pronoun, concrete noun, dorism, orthotone, apocope, obsoletism, word form, extradictionary, locution, circumbendibus, neologism, relative clause, verbal noun, autological, verbalist, apocopation, dead metaphor, auxiliary verb, antiphrasis, euphuist, prepositional phrase, perlocution, semasiological, hispanism, amphilogy, meronymy, sememe, phrasal verb, subjunctive, split infinitive, word play, polysyndeton, jargonize, gerund, paronym, anthimeria, holonymy, agnomination, cacoepy, adverbial, predeterminer, perissology, genteelism, anacoluthia, verbality, cockneyism, language unit, past perfect, adposition, aposiopesis, morphemics, onym, ideophone, kyriology, dysphemia, pauciloquy, phraseology, onomatope, quenya,