Noun

• S: (n) colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
• domain term usage
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) formulation, expression (the style of expressing yourself) "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared"
• S: (n) sentimentalism (the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form)
• S: (n) honorific (an expression of respect) "the Japanese use many honorifics"
• S: (n) archaism, archaicism (the use of an archaic expression)
• S: (n) boilerplate (standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories)
• S: (n) colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
• S: (n) parlance, idiom (a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language)
• S: (n) Americanism (an expression that is characteristic of English as spoken by Americans)
• S: (n) Anglicism, Briticism, Britishism (an expression that is used in Great Britain (especially as contrasted with American English))
• S: (n) wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage (the manner in which something is expressed in words) "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton