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metaphor

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1 metaphor

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.

Roget 147: substitution, commutation; supplanting etc. v.; metaphor, metonymy etc. (figure of speech) 521.    [Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, ... meer laten zien

Roget 514a: analogy, association, association of ideas.    metaphor etc. 521.    analogical thinking; free association; train of thought.   

Roget 521: figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.], way of speaking, colloquialism.    phrase etc. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis; metonymy [Gramm.], ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: beeldspraak, vergelijking, metafoor
Pools: przenoĊ›nia, metafora


Moby betekeniswoordenboek: accordance, agent, agreement, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alliteration, allusion, alternate, alternative, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, aping ... meer laten zien.

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