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| definition 1: |
An expression is an act of telling your thoughts or feelings.
Miguel gave his mother flowers as an expression of love and appreciation.- synonyms:
- communication, telling
- similar words:
- announcement, relation, speech, statement, talk
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| definition 2: |
The expression on your face is what tells other people how you are feeling. If your eyes look bright and you have a smile, your face has a happy expression.
When my father was talking on the telephone, I could tell something was wrong by the worried expression on his face.- similar words:
- face, look, posture, tone
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| definition 3: |
When you tell a story with a lot of expression, it means that you tell the story with voices and movements of your body that show different feelings.
The storyteller acted out everything with lots of expression. She gave each character a unique voice and different body movements depending on their personality.- similar words:
- appearance, attitude, manner, mode, posture, set, way
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| definition 4: |
An expression is a common thing that people say that has a special meaning in a particular language. Sometimes it can be difficult to understand the words by themselves if you are just learning the language. The words sometimes need to be explained. For example, the expression "It's raining cats and dogs" means that it's raining very hard. It doesn't mean that animals are falling from the sky!
One of my teacher's favorite expressions is "Slow but steady wins the race." She is trying to tell us that it's better to work slowly and carefully than to rush and do a bad job.- synonyms:
- phrase, saying
- similar words:
- term
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| related words: |
declaration |
| derivations: |
expressionless (adj.), expressionlessly (adv.) |
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