Definitionn. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Last update: July 5, 2015
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He is fond of using metaphors in his speech. [noun]
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Philosopher kings, the quarrel between poetry & philosophy, the cave metaphor are all famous bits from this. [noun]
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You explored the ancestral history of the teacher in order to discover a redemptive metaphor which was used to heal the child at school. [noun]
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"Without further metaphor, I will entreat your Grace to call him a person in whom I am specially interested," replied Claverhouse. [noun]
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It has realized an abstraction, a metaphor, a fiction; and that without deigning to look at the consequences, without considering the disadvantages, without inquiring whether it was right or wrong. [noun]
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He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." [noun]
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And this without metaphor. [noun]
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Commonplace metaphor replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." [noun]
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