0 the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words or actions:
We've received a lot of expressions of support for our campaign.
It's better to give expression to (= show) your anger, rather than hiding it.
formal His sadness at the death of his wife found expression (= was shown) in his music.
I could tell from her expression that something serious had happened.
1 a word or group of words used in a particular situation or by particular people:
2 in mathematics, a symbol or group of symbols that represent an amount:
4xy2 is an expression.
3 a word or group of words having a particular meaning or used in a particular way:
4 the act of showing a feeling or idea, or a feeling or idea that is shown:
I could tell from his grim expression that the news was not good.
He listened to the music with an expression of pure rapture on his face.
Modernism seeks to find new forms of expression and rejects traditional or accepted ideas.
In this role, Durante is able to give full expression to that wonderfully virile voice.
There is no English equivalent for 'bon appetit' so we have adopted the French expression.
Or does 'ordinary language' mean something different from a 'natural and easy way of expression'?
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