Crossword-Solution: PHRASE 6 letters, 117 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Phrase	n.	A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.
Phrase	n.	A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.
Phrase	n.	A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.
Phrase	n.	A short clause or portion of a period.
Phrase	v. t.	To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.
Phrase	v. i.	To use proper or fine phrases.
Phrase	v. i.	To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase, n., 4.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PHRASE	anagram	ESHARP, HEPARS, PHARES, PHASER, SERAPH, SHAPER, SHARPE, SHERPA, SPHAER

We have 117 clues for the answer “PHRASE”

Clue	Answers
"Do it yourself," for example.	1 answer
"In the soup" is one	1 answer
"No pain, no gain," for one	1 answer
"On the run" is one	1 answer
"Upon my soul!" is one	1 answer
Accompanying melodic riff	1 answer
Anagram of "seraph."	1 answer
Berlitz bit	1 answer
Clause component	1 answer
Clause's cousin	1 answer
Coinable line	1 answer
Couch, in a way	1 answer
Crossword clue, often	1 answer
Expression that's coined	1 answer
Idiom, e.g.	1 answer
It may be turned on a soapbox	1 answer
It may serve a sentence	1 answer
It might serve a sentence	1 answer
It's elegant when turned	1 answer
Many an Urban Dictionary entry	1 answer
Meaningful sequence of words	1 answer
Melodic riff	1 answer
Musical sentence	1 answer
Not quite a sentence	1 answer
Not quite a clause	1 answer
Occasional Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year, oddly	1 answer
One may be turned	1 answer
One might serve a sentence	1 answer
Out of sight is one	1 answer
Out of sight, for one	1 answer
Part of many a sentence	1 answer
SOUNDS forming a definite melodic or thematic feature (mus.)	1 answer
Say in a certain way	1 answer
Say in a particular way	1 answer
Section of a sentence	1 answer
See 27D	1 answer
Sentence chunk	1 answer
Sentence excerpt	1 answer
Sentence snippet	1 answer
Sequence of meaningful words	1 answer
Short coherent group of words	1 answer
Short expression	1 answer
Short musical passage	1 answer
Short, pithy expression.	1 answer
Something sometimes coined	1 answer
Something to coin	1 answer
Group of words forming an expression	1 answer
Syntactic unit	1 answer
The last two words of this clue, for example	1 answer
Thing turned while speaking	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EAETR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble PHRASE 6-letter words that start with P 6-letter words that end in E 6-letter words containing HR 6-letter words containing SE 6-letter words with P and H

Sentences with PHRASE (5)

The family party was complete except for Emil, and Oscar’s wife who, in the country phrase, “was not going anywhere just now.” Oscar sat at the foot of the table and his four tow-headed little boys, aged from twelve to five, were ranged at one side.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, first enlarging the consciousness with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are horizontal and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

And yet, though invariably happiest elsewhere, there is within me a feeling for Old Salem, which, in lack of a better phrase, I must be content to call affection.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Rather than be inflammatory, phrase your articles in a way that rationally expresses your opinion, like What're the practical uses of a Vic-20 these days? which presents yourself as a much more level-headed individual.

Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992

Commonly used in the phrase `programming on the bare metal', which refers to the arduous work of {bit bashing} needed to create these basic tools for a new machine.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with PHRASE (3)

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss …

Neil Gaiman The Kindly Ones

For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the f…

David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Guy Debord

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 116 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).