English-Thai Dictionary
locution
N สำนวน สำนวนโวหาร sam-nuan
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
LOCUTION
Lo *cu "tion, n. Etym: [L. locutio, fr. loqui to speak: cf. F.locution. ]
Defn: Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression. " Stumbling locutions." G. Eliot. I hate these figures in locution, These about phrases forced by ceremony. Marston.
New American Oxford Dictionary
locution
lo cu tion |lōˈkyo͞oSHən ləˈkjuʃən | ▶noun 1 a word or phrase, esp. with regard to style or idiom. • a person's style of speech: his impeccable locution. 2 an utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context. Compare with illocution, perlocution. • language regarded in terms of locutionary rather than illocutionary or perlocutionary acts. DERIVATIVES lo cu tion ar y |-ˌnerē |adjective ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin locutio (n- ), from loqui ‘speak. ’
Oxford Dictionary
locution
locution |ləˈkjuːʃ (ə )n | ▶noun 1 a word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom. • [ mass noun ] a person's style of speech: his impeccable locution. 2 an utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context. Compare with illocution, perlocution. DERIVATIVES locutionary adjective ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin locutio (n- ), from loqui ‘speak ’.
French Dictionary
locution
locution n. f. nom féminin Groupe de mots ayant une fonction grammaticale particulière.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
locution
lo cu tion (!/loʊkjúːʃ (ə )n /) 名詞 U C ⦅かたく ⦆(ある地域などに特有な )話し方, 言葉遣い, 言い回し ; 慣用語法 .