Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: diction
IPA transcription: [d'ɪkʃən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice_of_words, verbiage
    Meaning: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton
  • Synonyms: enunciation, diction
    Meaning: the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Usage examples
  • In commencing electioneering, he cultivated the farming population and their ways and diction.
  • Her conception of the character was as heavy and uncompromising as her diction; she bore hard on the idea and on the consonants.
  • Moreover, if the characters speak at random and in a random way, and all in one and the same diction, as is the case in Shakespeare's work, then even the action of gesticulation is wasted.
  • The Diction viewed as a whole is made up of the following parts: the Letter (or ultimate element), the Syllable, the Conjunction, the Article, the Noun, the Verb, the Case, and the Speech. (1) The Letter is an indivisible sound of a particular kind, one that may become a factor in an intelligible sound.