circumlocution

ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech
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circumlocution

Summary

circumlocution is a stylistic device[1]. circumlocution draws 168 Wikipedia views per month (stylistic_device category, ranking #48 of 107).[2]

Key Facts

  • circumlocution's instance of is recorded as stylistic device[3].
  • circumlocution's GND ID is recorded as 4173796-9[4].
  • circumlocution's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2006000166[5].
  • circumlocution's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11968666m[6].
  • circumlocution's subclass of is recorded as stylistic device[7].
  • circumlocution's said to be the same as is recorded as periphrasis[8].
  • circumlocution's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/019679[9].
  • circumlocution's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph216781[10].
  • circumlocution's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Paraphrases[11].
  • circumlocution's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0131092[12].
  • circumlocution's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • circumlocution's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[14].
  • circumlocution's different from is recorded as paraphrase[15].
  • circumlocution's FAST ID is recorded as 1739071[16].
  • circumlocution's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00003249n[17].
  • circumlocution's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121b22gs[18].
  • circumlocution's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2331614[19].
  • circumlocution's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 142075640[20].
  • circumlocution's Krugosvet article is recorded as gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/SHTAMP_RECHEVO.html[21].
  • circumlocution's Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID is recorded as perifraze[22].
  • circumlocution's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007539945905171[23].
  • circumlocution's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as perifrasi[24].
  • circumlocution's Vikidia article ID is recorded as fr:Périphrase[25].
  • circumlocution's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/e74924e3-d7af-401d-ac7c-0e38d234aff7[26].

Why It Matters

circumlocution draws 168 Wikipedia views per month (stylistic_device category, ranking #48 of 107).[2] circumlocution has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] circumlocution is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_circumlocution_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{circumlocution}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/circumlocution}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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