Difference between Phrase and Word

What is the difference between Phrase and Word?

Phrase as a noun is a short written or spoken expression. while Word as a noun is a distinct unit of language (sounds in speech or written letters) with a particular meaning, composed of one or more morphemes, and also of one or more phonemes that determine its sound pattern.

Phrase

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A short written or spoken expression. A word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words. A small section of music in a larger piece.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To perform a passage with the correct phrasing. To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of words. To divide into melodic phrases.

Example sentence: You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

Word

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: , or to speak the truth; the shortened form of the statement, "My word is my bond," an expression eventually shortened to "Word is bond," before it finally got cut to just "Word," which is its most commonly used form.An abbreviated form of ; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To say or write (something) using particular words.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A distinct unit of language (sounds in speech or written letters) with a particular meaning, composed of one or more morphemes, and also of one or more phonemes that determine its sound pattern.A distinct unit of language which is approved by some authority.Something promised, (as in a contract or oath).News; tidings.A discussion.A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.A finite string which is not a command or operator.A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine. On many 16-bit machines a word is 16 bits or two bytes.A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.God.The Bible.

Example sentence: This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

We hope you now know whether to use Phrase or Word in your sentence.

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