English
Pronunciation
Noun
wording (countable and uncountable, plural wordings)
- A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.
- Synonyms: phrasing; see also Thesaurus:wording
1955 December, “Notes and News: An Old Midland Railway Bridge Notice”, in Railway Magazine, page 877:It is highly improbable that the drafter of the notice ever visualised the form that heavy vehicles of the future would take, but the comprehensive wording still covers modern types.
Translations
choice of words
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: фармулёўка f (farmuljóŭka), фармуліроўка f (farmuliróŭka)
- Bulgarian: формулиро́вка (bg) f (formuliróvka), подбор на думи (podbor na dumi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 提法 (zh) (tífǎ), 說法 / 说法 (zh) (shuōfǎ), 措詞 / 措词 (zh) (cuòcí)
- Danish: formulering c
- Dutch: woordkeuze (nl), verwoording (nl) f, formulering (nl) f, bewoording (nl) f
- Faroese: orðing f, orðalag n
- Finnish: sanavalinta, sanamuoto (fi)
- French: formulation (fr) f, choix de mots
- German: Formulierung (de) f, Wortlaut (de) m, Wortwahl (de) f, Ausdrucksweise (de) f
- Greek: διατύπωση (el) f (diatýposi), επιλογή των λέξεων f (epilogí ton léxeon)
- Irish: foclaíocht f
- Italian: dicitura (it) f
- Japanese: 言葉遣い (ja) (ことばづかい, kotobazukai), 言い回し (ja) (いいまわし, iimawashi)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ordlyd (no) m
- Nynorsk: ordlyd m
- Polish: sformułowanie (pl) n, brzmienie (pl) n
- Portuguese: fraseado (pt) m
- Romanian: formulare (ro) f
- Russian: формулиро́вка (ru) f (formuliróvka)
- Scottish Gaelic: briathran m pl
- Slovak: formulácia f
- Swedish: formulering (sv)
- Turkish: üslup (tr), biçem (tr)
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Verb
wording
- present participle and gerund of word
Dutch
Etymology
From worden + -ing.
Pronunciation
Noun
wording f (uncountable)
- the act of becoming
- the moment of becoming; genesis