HOLOPHRASTIC


Meaning of HOLOPHRASTIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌhō-lə-ˈfras-tik, ˌhä- ]

adjective

Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary hol- + -phrastic (from Greek phrazein to point out, declare)

Date: 1860

: expressing a complex of ideas in a single word or in a fixed phrase

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.