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phrase has 9 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 6 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
put into words or an expression
“He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for phrase come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
divide, combine, or mark into phrases
“phrase a musical passage”